At what does Win2k register itself into DNS

[Kevin Darcy]

Barry Finkel wrote:

> On our Win2k testbed, I was seeing self-registrations at these intervals
> a few days after the one self-registration completed successfully:
>
>       5 minutes
>      10 minutes
>      60 minutes
>       5 minutes ...
>
> I assume that the MS code expects the MS DNS "scavenger" code to be
> running; that code might unregister the computer if it is off of the
> network.  In my testing, I allowed only ONE sef-registration to succeed;
> I wanted to get a trace of the DNS update packets.

AHA! That's why I'm getting update requests to the Internet-visible
jeep.com at 5/10/60 minute intervals.

To the guilty party (you know who you are): if you don't stop this crap
soon I'm calling the FBI and reporting it as a hacking attempt!!!


- Kevin