From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 23 23:43:04 2005 Return-Path: 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 5E97016A4CE for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 23:43:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2C7E43D2F for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 23:43:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) id j1NNh2Cl063897; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 17:43:02 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 17:43:02 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: kalin mintchev Message-ID: <20050223234302.GM253@dan.emsphone.com> References: <61245.68.165.89.73.1109201689.squirrel@68.165.89.73> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <61245.68.165.89.73.1109201689.squirrel@68.165.89.73> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hosts.allow X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 23:43:04 -0000 In the last episode (Feb 23), kalin mintchev said: > i have some crap in my log like: > > Feb 23 16:56:45 bigdaddy named[85641]: client 218.19.160.163#63869: update 'bigdaddy.com/IN' denied > Feb 23 16:56:46 bigdaddy named[85641]: client 218.19.160.163#62855: update 'bigdaddy.com/IN' denied > Feb 23 17:02:10 bigdaddy named[85641]: client 218.19.160.163#63999: update 'bigdaddy.com/IN' denied > Feb 23 17:16:20 bigdaddy named[85641]: client 218.19.160.163#62723: update 'bigdaddy.com/IN' denied > Feb 23 17:16:59 bigdaddy named[85641]: client 218.19.160.163#63975: update 'bigdaddy.com/IN' denied > Feb 23 17:20:38 bigdaddy named[85641]: client 218.19.160.163#63873: update 'bigdaddy.com/IN' denied > Feb 23 17:21:05 bigdaddy named[85641]: client 218.19.160.163#64057: update 'bigdaddy.com/IN' denied > > so i put: > > ALL : 218.19.160.163 : deny > > in my hosts.allow but i still get that log piling up.... Named isn't built with tcpwrapper support; it would probably cause too much overhead. Chances are the machine at 218.19.160.163 is a windows XP machine at your location, with Dynamic DNS updating enabled. Just go into the TCP/IP prefs and disable it. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com