Command Line - programmatically add/remove/rename BIND alias records?

Question

For our local dev server, we routinely add and remove name alias records in our BIND/named server for our local network domain. I usually do this manually through Webmin, just out of convenience. But I do it so often it's annoying and I would imagine it could be automated.

Is there someway to do this easily from the command-line using bash scripts? Ultimately, I'm looking for a way to add, remove and rename name aliases to the server.

And I'm hoping for something a little better than grepping the bind config file and searching/replacing...

Answer 1

The method I generally use is to setup the zone for dynamic updates, and then use nsupdate.

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