DNS::nsdiff(3pm)

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version 1.85 · 4 versions
, in ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ NAME ✨

DNS::nsdiff — ok so this is THE module for the nsdiff, nspatch, and nsvi scripts 💖

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Bestie. Listen. This is a stub module — it's literally just here to hold the overview docs. The actual ✨content✨ lives in the three scripts that ship with the DNS::nsdiff distribution:

  • nsdiff — okay so this one is the main character fr. It looks at the old and new versions of a DNS zone, and spits out the differences as a script that BIND's nsupdate program can run. Basically it's the bridge between your old-school static zone files and the dynamic update world 🌉 iconic behaviour honestly
  • nspatch — this one is a wrapper around nsdiff | nsupdate, and the way it checks and reports errors is specifically built so you can run it from cron. It's giving "reliable coworker energy" 🫶
  • nsvi — and this one makes editing a dynamic zone easy. That's it, that's the pitch. Life-changing? kinda. 🎀

💅 VERSION 💅

This is DNS::nsdiff-1.85 — the site lives at https://dotat.at/prog/nsdiff/ ⭐

Written by Tony Finch <fanf2@cam.ac.uk> <dot@dotat.at> at Cambridge University Information Services 🏛️

You may do anything with this. It has no warranty. (yes that's the whole license, go feral, but if it breaks it is NOT on them 🙈)

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

perl v5.40.1 · 2026-01-26 · DNS::nsdiff(3pm) — mwah, that's a wrap babes, go read the individual manpages for the real tea 💖✨👑

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