dynamic dns errors in log?

[Kevin Darcy]

Unfortunately, "denied update" and "unapproved update" fall into the
"security" category instead of the "update" category. So you can't really turn
that down without blinding yourself to potentially serious attacks.


- Kevin

Robert Weber wrote:

> I don't think you understood my question.  How do we turn off the messages
> from bind?  I personally cannot modify the setup of the 10000+ w2k and macos
> machines in my B class, and don't want to.  I just want to turn off the
> annoying messages to syslog.
>
>                                                 Robert Weber
>                                                 University of Colorado
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> > Robert Weber <robert.weber at Colorado.EDU> wrote:
> >
> > >I see this all the time.  Dynamic updates are off by default, and these
> > >updates are probably from MAC OS9 machines trying to advertise their disk
> > >shares with LOC records.  If they're not mac's then they are Windows2000
> > >machines doing the same thing.  If you need this functionality, you can
> > >setup a dynamic subdomain for W2K or OS9 or both.  A question for the group:
> > >is there any way to turn these messages off?
> >
> > In Win2k, dynamic updates are turned ON by default.
> > You can disable DDNS from a Win2k workstation; see the list
> > archives at isc.org for details.  But there are cases where a Win2k
> > Domain Controller MUST have DDNS (self-registration) enabled.
> >
> > <soapbox on>
> > For all of those who are implementing (i.e., struggling with) Win2k
> > please check the list archives.  There have been a lot of postings
> > concerning DDNS and Win2k over the past 1.5 years.  I know that 99%
> > of you who read this posting already know this.  But the 99% of the
> > people who need this information will NEVER search the achives before
> > posting.
> > <soapbox off>
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> Status: by weberr Fri Feb 23 11:08:30 2001
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