From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 15 4: 6:54 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C342037B401 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 04:06:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from rhadamanth.submonkey.net (pc1-cdif2-5-cust47.cdif.cable.ntl.com [81.101.150.47]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AE1943E4A for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 04:06:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from setantae@submonkey.net) Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.submonkey.net with local (Exim 4.12) id 18YmJn-00014K-00; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 12:06:51 +0000 Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 12:06:51 +0000 From: Ceri Davies To: Matthew Seaman Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: named messages in /var/log/messages Message-ID: <20030115120651.GC3991@submonkey.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri Davies , Matthew Seaman , FreeBSD Questions References: <1042586630.51041.360.camel@localhost> <20030114235015.GB22937@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030114235015.GB22937@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> X-message-flag: All your linuxconf-configured redhat are belong to us. X-message-flag-attribution: suresh, sdm. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 11:50:15PM +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 11:23:51PM +0000, Stacey Roberts wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm running bind in a sandbox as per the handbook. I've had this > > set up and (presumably) working okay since FreeBSD 4.6 Stable, and have > > today noticed these named entries in /var/log/messages: > > > > named[143]: denied update from [host_IP].1268 for > > "1.168.192.in-addr.arpa" IN > > Are you running a DHCP server? On Windows 2K? > > This is a host trying to insert a dynamic PTR record into your DNS. > That is usually a function of a DHCP server, and can be configured if > desired. If you haven't configured dynamic DNS, then it's harmless > apart from taking up space in your log files. Windows 2000 will, by default, try this everytime it's assigned an IP. > W2K is notable for shipping with the dynamic DNS stuff turned on. > It's not just you: seems a lot of W2K machines try to update records > in the root servers too... Search for 'Syslog Errors' in > http://www.caida.org/outreach/presentations/ietf0112/dns.damage.html > for the depressing statistics. At my last job, we used to get (and they probably still do) about 2000 of these messages an hour: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=102224673800003&r=1&w=2 Ceri -- Zoom! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message