From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 27 13:40:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tomts9-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts9.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EA2F37B416 for ; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 13:40:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca ([199.243.128.21]) by tomts9-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with ESMTP id <20020127214008.ZELV26820.tomts9-srv.bellnexxia.net@xena.gsicomp.on.ca>; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 16:40:08 -0500 Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id g0RLU8X41916; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 16:30:08 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <003901c1a77b$30a9b990$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: Cc: References: Subject: Re: DNS Question Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 16:40:07 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 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 > Hi all, > > Maybe it is a stupid question, but my /var/log/messages keeps saying: > > named[31077]: denied update from [local IP address].2018 for "local domain" > IN > > "2018" seems to be a process ID. "Local domain" is not valid/existend on the > internet. > Is the machine "local IP address" trying to update the DNS configuration? > How, Why ? > "Local IP address" is a windows 2000 professional client PC who is using the > DNS on my FreeBSD machine. 2018 is actually a port address. The message is telling you that the Win2K machine is attempting to perform a Dynamic DNS update (which is not allowed by your current bind configuration). Turn off DDNS on the Win2K box and the errors should go away. (Go to the LAN adapter's properties, select TCP/IP -> Properties -> Advanced -> DNS -> *uncheck* "Register this connection's addresses in DNS") -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message