Denied Update

Justin Thomas justin at jdthomas.net
Mon Sep 18 01:18:57 UTC 2000


Hmmm . . .  Then what the message is saying is that my machine is requesting
a dynamic update from itself and is being denied.  Why would this be the
case?  I am using FreeBSD 4.1.

BTW  When you write "See allow-update.", what are you referring to?  A man
page?

Thanks,
Justin

Mark.Andrews at nominum.com wrote:

>         It means exactly what it says.
>
>         Named received a dynamic update request for the zone
>         mydomain.com from my.ip.address.here and it was denied.
>
>         Common sources of dynamic update requests are Window 2000
>         machines and newer DHCP clients.  By default all requests
>         are denied.  See allow-update.
>
>         Mark
> >
> > I am receiving this message in me message log:
> >
> > Sep 16 20:46:05 unix named[133]: denied update from
> > [my.ip.address.here].1313 for mydomain.com
> >
> > I edited out my real ip address and domain name, of course and the 1313
> > increases each time the message appears in the log.  The message shows
> > up at random intervals, sometimes within 2 hours and sometimes within 5
> > minutes.  I have set my firewall to allow all traffic through.
> >
> > I have not noticed an actual problem yet, but rather want to be
> > proactive about solving it.  What does this message mean?
> >
> > Thanks for any help,
> > Justin
> >
> >
> >
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> 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
> PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742                 INTERNET: Mark.Andrews at nominum.com




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