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Does anybody know how to update a load balanced DNS entry on a BIND9 server using nsupdate?

Everything in DNS is setup and works, I can happily update my name server using nsupdate but I can't find any syntax to allow me to add multiple endpoints to an entry. For example, I have an entry such as:

www           IN A       192.168.1.20
              IN A       192.168.1.21
              IN A       192.168.1.22

The 192.168.1.22 is going down for maintenance and I want to remove it from the DNS record in advance, I would like to run:

nsupdate [keys etc]
> server dns.example.com
> update delete www.example.com
> update add www.example.com 1 IN A 192.168.1.20 A 192.168.1.21
> send
> quit

Obviously manually editing the DNS file works fine, but I'd like to do this over nsupdate. If anyone can provide a way of doing this I'd be very grateful, thanks.

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    Having more than one CNAME violates RFC. Does that even work?
    – Michael Hampton
    Aug 25, 2013 at 14:06
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    I think you may well be right, I'll change that to A records instead
    – Yossarian
    Aug 25, 2013 at 19:33

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Just use multiple update add lines.

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update add www.example.com 3600 IN A 192.168.1.20
update add www.example.com 3600 IN A 192.168.1.21
send
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  • I'm an idiot! Thanks. I only tested it with CNAMEs...
    – Yossarian
    Aug 26, 2013 at 6:55

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