nsupdate querying Windows 2000 DNS server

Levon Esibov (Exchange) levone at Exchange.Microsoft.com
Thu Sep 2 23:01:03 UTC 1999


Hi,

Just wanted to bring to your attention the following interop issue:

When nsupdate sends a query for a SOA record of a non-existing name and the
Windows 2000 is authoritative for that name, the nsupdate fails to parse the
servers response.

Windows 2000 DNS server returns NXDOMAIN with
SOA record of an authoritative zone (in Authority section)
and
A record of the primary name server specified in the SOA record (in the
Additional section).

It looks like the nsupdate can't parse this Additional section.
Since nsupdate fails to parse the response, it fails the update. Thus,
nsupdate cannot be used to update a Windows 2000 DNS server.

Thanks,
Levon.


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