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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