unapproved update from .....
Kevin Darcy
kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Tue Dec 7 22:18:18 UTC 1999
Mark.Andrews at iengines.com wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I am receiving a number of messages in the form of:
> >
> > Dec 7 14:12:55 opus named[218]: unapproved update from [x.y.z.j].portnumber
> > for rockefeller.edu
> >
> > I believe these systems are running Windows 2000. Looking back in
> > the bind archives, I see some talk about this message. But I never saw
> > an actual solution. I don't want to give the systems write access
> > to the nameserver. Is there something else can be done?
> >
> Apart from teaching the Windows 2000 box not to make the request,
> no.
>
> You are already denying the box write access. This is the default
> action for updates.
I suppose if one wanted to be nasty about it, one could blackhole the IP address.
Not that I'd actually ever *recommend* such a thing... :-)
- Kevin
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