Re: nsupdate delete question

2009-04-30 Thread Niall O'Reilly
On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 10:18 -0400, James M wrote: > trying to > delete a nonexistant host does not return an error. That seems reasonable to me, since the state of the zone file after the transaction is indeed the state which would be expected, had the host been present and

Re: nsupdate delete question

2009-04-30 Thread Chris Thompson
On Apr 30 2009, James M wrote: While invoking nsupdate within a program I notice that trying to delete a nonexistant host does not return an error. That's a result of the way that RFC 2136 defined update operations. Read section 3, and note in particular that errors are never generated in 3.4.