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On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 13:31:33 -0600, Jason J. Ellingson <jason at ellingson dot com> wrote: > I have MS DNS servers running and was wondering if anyone had a way for m0n0 > to update a record? > > I see m0n0 has a "RFC 2163 Dynamic DNS updates" option now, but no > documentation on it. I wonder if it can be used to update a stand-alone MS > W2K Server running DNS? > Doesn't look like it. Windows 2000 DNS server doesn't appear to be RFC 2163 compliant. The back end of that appears to be BIND's nsupdate if that might help any. http://www.rt.com/man/nsupdate.8.html http://www.oceanwave.com/technical-resources/unix-admin/nsupdate.html http://linux.yyz.us/nsupdate/ http://caunter.ca/nsupdate.txt Found this post: --- Someone from Microsoft sent me mail the other day saying: > 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. --- http://ops.ietf.org/lists/namedroppers/namedroppers.199x/msg04301.html But that was September 1999, so things may have changed since then. If you give it a shot, I'd love to hear the results. It's on my list of things to check out, but that's a pretty long list. -Chris |