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Last active November 14, 2023 23:50
dnsupdate is meant to replace nsupdate, the standard DDNS update tool created by BIND authors ISC. While nsupdate does the job it is awkward to wrap in scripts and its usage in general is just not very intuitive. dnsupdate is meant to work well from the command line or from scripts and easy to use. It also does some nice things like automaticall…
#!/usr/bin/env python2.7
# Matt's DNS management tool
# Manage DNS using DDNS features
#
# See http://planetfoo.org/blog/archive/2012/01/24/a-better-nsupdate/
#
# Usage: dnsupdate -s server -k key -t ttl add _minecraft._tcp.mc.example.com SRV 0 0 25566 mc.example.com.
# -h HELP!
# -s the server
# -k the key