dnsvi - edit dynamic DNS zones in vi

dnsvi is a frontend for nsupdate. Given a DNS zone name, it uses dig -t AXFR to get all the records in a zone. It then spawns your favorite editor, and upon completion, builds a list of "update add" and "update delete" statements to feed to nsupdate.

Usage:

./dnsvi [-igl] [-k keyfile] [-p port] [@nameserver] <zone>

Dependencies:

• perl
• Sort::Naturally (Debian: libsort-naturally-perl)
• dig, nsupdate (Debian: dnsutils)
• some $EDITOR (Default: sensible-editor)

Screenshot

$ dnsvi -k dyn.df7cb.de.key @ns.df7cb.de dyn.df7cb.de
[...vi...]
nsupdate commands queued:
server ns.df7cb.de
zone dyn.df7cb.de
update delete fermi.dyn.df7cb.de. IN A 127.0.0.1
update add    lehmann.dyn.df7cb.de. 600 IN A 127.0.0.1
update add    volta.dyn.df7cb.de. 2419200 IN SSHFP 3 1 DC66C1C5E9ED611FBDF0A9E1F701B1F8C38A6C1D
send
answer

[S]end, [e]dit, send and edit [a]gain, [q]uit: [s]

IDN Support

If you are updating a punycode domain and you are using bind9 >= 9.14.0, you need to specify -i to be able to update the zone, otherwise there will be a mix of punycode and non-punycode domains which nsupdate will refuse.

Author

Christoph Berg myon@debian.org