Distributed Name Service (DNS) Management Programming Manual

Programmatic Commands
Introduction
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Programmatic
Commands
DNS defines a set of object types, that is, the kinds of objects that can be managed by
DNS. DNS also defines a set of commands that can be performed on objects of these
types.
The DNS object types are listed below, followed by an overview of the DNS
programmatic commands and a comparison of them with interactive commands.
Section 5 describes the DNS programmatic commands individually.
Object Types The DNS programmatic object types are listed below, along with their corresponding
object type numbers:
ZDNS-OBJ-DNS (0)
ZDNS-OBJ-NAME (1)
ZDNS-OBJ-ALIAS (2)
ZDNS-OBJ-ATYPE (3)
ZDNS-OBJ-COMP (4)
ZDNS-OBJ-CTYPE (5)
ZDNS-OBJ-FILE (6)
ZDNS-OBJ-PROC (7)
ZDNS-OBJ-DOM (8)
ZDNS-OBJ-GROUP (9)
ZDNS-OBJ-SS (10)
ZDNS-OBJ-SSMGR (11)
ZDNS-OBJ-SSOBJ (12)
ZDNS-OBJ-SSTYPE (13)
ZDNS-OBJ-SYSTEM (14)
In addition, a null object type is provided for commands that do not require
specification of a particular object type. These commands appear in Table 1-1 later in
this section, without object types.
Most commands require that an object type be specified in the requester’s call to
SSINIT (an SPI procedure discussed in Section 3). The object type parameter specifies
the type of name (or names) that the command is to act upon. The combination of
command and object type, in many cases, forms a programmatic equivalent of an
interactive command.
The programmatic object types listed above are described in more detail in “DNS
Definitions” in Section 4. The Distributed Name Service (DNS) Management Operations
Manual contains a detailed discussion of the relationships among these and other DNS
object types.