unapproved update - what does that mean??

[Kevin Oberman]

Agustín Orviz Camblor <aorviz at telecable.es> writes:

> Duane Cox wrote:
> > 
> > we host the domain perfectwebsolutions.com on our ns.servercom.com
> > and the following error occurs very often.. whats up??
> > 
> > Jan 26 06:33:11 hybrid-catv named[300]: unapproved update from [198.88.186.181].20493 for perfectwebsolutions.com
> > Jan 26 06:33:11 hybrid-catv named[300]: unapproved update from [198.88.186.181].20499 for perfectwebsolutions.com
> > Jan 26 06:33:11 hybrid-catv named[300]: unapproved update from [198.88.186.181].20505 for perfectwebsolutions.com
> > Jan 26 06:33:12 hybrid-catv named[300]: unapproved update from [198.88.186.181].20511 for perfectwebsolutions.com
> > Jan 26 06:33:12 hybrid-catv named[300]: unapproved update from [198.88.186.181].20517 for perfectwebsolutions.com
> > Jan 26 06:33:13 hybrid-catv named[300]: unapproved update from [198.88.186.181].20523 for perfectwebsolutions.com
> > Jan 26 06:33:13 hybrid-catv named[300]: unapproved update from [198.88.186.181].20529 for perfectwebsolutions.com
> > Jan 26 06:33:14 hybrid-catv named[300]: unapproved update from [198.88.186.181].20535 for perfectwebsolutions.com
> > Jan 26 06:33:14 hybrid-catv named[300]: unapproved update from [198.88.186.181].20541 for perfectwebsolutions.com
> > 
> > duane cox
> 
> Hello:
> 
> 	I think it can be from a NT/Windows2000 machine, with dinamic dns
> running in it. Your dns is configured not to accept this type of
> requestes.

No. It may be a Windows 2000 system, but your DNS is NOT
configured to accept it. (unapproved update).
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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