Nsupdate

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nsupdate is a computer network maintenance utility used by network administrators to request the name server of a DNS zone to update its database. The name server might be local to a domain or, with appropriate authentication and permission provided by DNSSEC, an internet name server.

BIND 8 and later supports this feature.

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This example removes the nameserver address record for oldhost from domain example.com and replaces it with a new address record with a 24 hour time to live (86,400 seconds). The new host's IP address is 192.168.254.117.

# nsupdate
> update delete oldhost.example.com A
> update add newhost.example.com 86400 A 192.168.254.117
> send

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RFC 2136

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