update denied

[Sam Pointer]

Do you run any Win2K boxes at your site? Out of the box Win2K has `DNS
NOTIFY` turned on, which would mean any Win2K boxes in your DNS domain (as
opposed to your Windows Domain) would attempt to update their details on
your nameservers. This option can be turned off with the network set-up
somewhere on 2K - it's a a little inoccuous checkboxs somewhere.

Win2K boxes can certainly fill your logs up with this stuff, especially if
it's more than one server. They attempt the update very often for a long
time!

Regards, Sam.

-----Original Message-----
From: Edmiston, Jerry [mailto:JEdmisto at Paymentech.com]
Sent: 18 March 2002 15:46
To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
Subject: update denied



We are seeing numerous errors in our syslog:
"host" /usr/sbin/named[xxxx]: client 1.2.3.4 #1234: update denied

could anyone give me  a explanation of this message...the clients in
question are not in our DNS d/b and in some cases the network (ie 1.2.3) is
not even defined in named.conf...tks for any help...Jerry

Jerry L. Edmiston
Unix System Admin.
Paymentech, Inc.
jedmisto at paymentech.com
office - 813-351-2213
cell - 813-376-3403



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