changeip and DNS in 10.6

[Supreme.B.Ing]

From the OS X 10.6 man page for changeip

HISTORY
     A version of changeip has been present in Mac OS X Server since at least version 10.3 (Panther).

     In 10.6 (Snow Leopard), changeip no longer manipulates the directory and therefore no longer takes a
     directory URL as an argument.

So what do we use to manipulate the directory record?

– B

[synacknet]

You may find /usr/libexec/changeDirData.pl useful. It has a man page: man changeDirData.pl

[Supreme.B.Ing]

man page looks promising.

i will definitely check it out!

Thanks!!

– B

[Debora68]

Hi, i am new here and like your post much. thanks for sharing.Hope we shall have good time. 😆 😆 😆

[roobieroo]

From the advanced server admin documentation

To change the DNS name
sudo scutil –set OldName You can use the scutil command-line tool to set the computer name and local
hostname. For more information, see the scutil man page. Do not use the changeip command-line tool to change DNS names, even though the
tool is still available.

and

You can use the scutil command-line tool to set the local hostname and local hostname. For more information, see the scutil man page.
Do not use the changeip command-line tool to change computer names, even though the tool is still available.

I’m confused. In the same manual they tell you to use changeip to modify other records so what gives?

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