Re: DNSJAVA Help

[Brian W. <bwe...@xb...>]

On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Sreenivasa Mulakala wrote:

> I am having trouble in adding a row to DNS which is BIND 9.2.5.
>
> I am able to ping the server.
>
> When I run the program which is below. Nothing goes on to wire atleast. The
> code is not contacting the server for update or add.
>
> Could you please advice me on what could be wrong.
>
> Thanks & Regards
> Sri
>
> 		System.setProperty("sun.net.spi.nameservice.nameservers","192.168.2.3");
> 		System.setProperty("sun.net.spi.nameservice.provider.1", "dns,sun");
> 		System.setProperty("sun.net.spi.nameservice.provider.2", "dns,dnsjava");
>
>
>
>    public Record addDNSEntry(String zone, int dnsClass, long ttl, String
> ipAddress ){
>    	String = "ool-18bbc301.arpa.net."
>
>    	Message msg = new Message();
>    	Record record = null;
>
>    	try{
>    		System.out.println("Trying to update the record");
>
>    		byte[] ipaddressbytearray = Address.toByteArray("195.187.24.1",
> Address.IPv4);
>
>
>    		record = Record.newRecord(new Name(zone), Type.A, DClass.IN, ttl,
> ipaddressbytearray.length, ipaddressbytearray);
>
>    		msg.addRecord(record,Section.ADDITIONAL);
>    		log.info("The Entry is updated");
>    	}catch(TextParseException tpe){
>    		log.error(" OOOPs In TextParseException of add DNS entry : ");
>    		log.error(tpe.getMessage());
>    	}catch(Exception ioe){
>    		log.error("OOPS In Exception of add DNS entry : ");
>    		log.error(ioe.getMessage());
>    	}
>    	return record;
>    }

You're building a message and never sending it.  See the example of using 
dynamic update at http://www.dnsjava.org/examples.html.

Brian