FreeBSD 10 and nsupdate

[Wolfgang Zenker]

* Royce Williams <royce at tycho.org> [140120 04:11]:
> On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 5:58 PM, Mark Andrews <marka at isc.org> wrote:

>> In message <20140120024900.GA58703 at lyxys.ka.sub.org>, Wolfgang Zenker writes:

>>> as nsupdate is no longer available on a standard FreeBSD 10 install,
>>> is there any other tool to perform RFC 2136 dynamic dns updates in
>>> the base system now? I have not been able to find one.
>>> Otherwise, is there anything in ports that you would recommend?

>> Install bind99.

> Wolfgang, is your intent to solely perform dynamic DNS updates?

Yes, I'm looking for an update clientonly.

> If so, wouldn't something like dns/ddclient suffice -- with a much
> smaller footprint than installing bind99 in its entirety?

ddclient does not list RFC 2136 as supported protocol in its
documentation, so I can not use it here.

Wolfgang