Linux.yyz.us: nsupdate: Quick and Painless Dynamic DNS

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 31, 2004

[ Thanks to Jeff
Garzik
for this link. ]

“Introduced in BIND version 8 and refined in BIND version 9, the
nsupdate provides the system administrator or casual user with a
quick and painless method of updating a DNS zone, adding or
deleting any type of DNS record the name server supports.

“This article describes how to setup dynamic DNS, and provides
some examples of use. For Fedora Core (and Red Hat) users, you will
need to install both the bind (for dnssec-keygen) and bind-utils
(for nsupdate) packages…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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