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Re: [cobalt-security] named "denied update" error
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-security] named "denied update" error
- From: David Garcia Watkins <dgw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 13:42:21 CEST
- List-id: Mailing list for users to address network security on Cobalt products. <cobalt-security.list.cobalt.com>
Win2K has a checkbox selected by default in advanced DNS settings to automatically update the DNS record. If you convince your client to unselect it, the message will go.
Regards,
David
On 05 May 2001 02:30 CEST you wrote:
> >I'm getting this error message in my log
> >several hundred times a day:
> >
> >May 3 19:31:17 www named[671]: denied update from [157.238.135.154].9594
> for >"KELLER.COM"
>
> I had the same problem. I was getting the same errors from a domain that
> belonged to one of my customers. After investigating for several weeks I
> determined that my customer had gotten a DSL connection and on that
> connection they had a Windows 2k Advanced Server installed. And guess
> what...they named the computer their domain name.
>
> Apparently like it or not Win 2k goes out every so often and tries to update
> DNS records and will give errors to the actual domain.
>
> I'm not sure if this is the case, but may give you another avenue to
> explore...
>
> Good luck...
>
> Scott
>