We just moved one of our remote campuses to new IPv4 number space and I was having tremendous problems all day using nsupdate. I thought it was because the change of DNS address had not gone through yet, but it had and a whois lookup shows the correct DNS addresses.
When I finally debugged an nsupdate attempt, I see what is happening but I am not sure why. Found zone name: 253.112.64.IN-ADDR.ARPa The master is: ns.osuit.edu Sending update to 164.112.255.20#53 That's our problem. A SOA query seems to be returning 164.112.255.20 but the proper address is 64.112.255.20 I thought I had fat-fingered an entry in the zone for osuit.edu, but if you query it for the SOA record, you get: osuit.edu. 43200 IN SOA ns.osuit.edu. lisa.garrison.okstate.edu. 2222908 3600 900 608400 30 osuit.edu. 22697 IN NS ns2.osuit.edu. osuit.edu. 22697 IN NS ns.osuit.edu. ns.osuit.edu. 7956 IN A 64.112.255.20 ns2.osuit.edu. 22697 IN A 64.112.255.21 Those addresses are correct and the whois data base was updated today with the same addresses. Name Servers: NS.OSUIT.EDU 64.112.255.20 NS2.OSUIT.EDU 64.112.255.21 I've been fighting this all day and have run out of ideas. Any ideas as to why the address is changing? I even did a recursive grep on the master for 164.112.255 and didn't find a thing matching that. thanks for any suggestions. this totally breaks nsupdate unless you force the server and zone information. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users