Setup guide

Standards and Technologies: Dynamic Updates in the DNS (RFC 2136), Secure DNS Dynamic
Update (RFC 3007)
Hardware usage:
Not significant
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Description
Dynamic DNS Update is a tool that should be manually run to update dynamic DNS server.
Note that you have to have a DNS server that supports DNS updates properly configured.
Additional Documents
• DNS related RFCs
Dynamic DNS Update
Command name: /tool dns-update
Property Description
address (IP address) - defines IP address associated with the domain name
dns-server (IP address) - DNS server to send update to
key (text; default: "") - authorization key (password of a kind) to access the server
key-name (text; default: "") - authorization key name (username of a kind) to access the server
name (text) - name to attach with the IP address
ttl (integer; default: 0) - time to live for the item (in seconds)
zone (text) - DNS zone where to update the domain name in
Notes
Example
To tell 23.34.45.56 DNS server to (re)associate mydomain name in the myzone.com zone with
68.42.14.4 IP address specifying that the name of the key is dns-update-key and the actual key is
update:
[admin@Wandy] tool> dns-update dns-server=23.34.45.56 name=mydomain \
\... zone=myzone.com address=68.42.14.4 key-name=dns-update-key key=update
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