From owner-freebsd-security Thu Oct 4 8:11: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from hermes.intergate.ca (hermes.intergate.ca [207.34.179.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5D2CE37B40A for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 08:11:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 11927 invoked by uid 1007); 4 Oct 2001 15:43:54 -0000 Received: from landons@uniserve.com by hermes.intergate.ca with qmail-scanner-0.93 (uvscan: v4.0.50/v4164. . Clean. Processed in 0.446727 secs); 04/10/2001 08:43:53 Received: from landons.vpp-office.uniserve.ca (HELO pirahna.uniserve.com) (216.113.198.10) by hermes.intergate.ca with SMTP; 4 Oct 2001 15:43:52 -0000 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20011004080937.03006990@pop.uniserve.com> X-Sender: landons@pop.uniserve.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 08:10:59 -0700 To: "Karl M. Joch" , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG From: Landon Stewart Subject: Re: Windows 2000 Server behind IPFW/NAT tries to update external DNS? In-Reply-To: <3BB4743E.5080906@kmjeuro.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >also if i would replace this stupid thing with samba, there is no way for >it. any idea how to get this stupid M$ thing to not try to update the DNS? >i know there are things in W2K regarding active directory and DNS, but >still havnt found a way. I think what you are running into is the DHCP Client software on the window's machines automatically send an update when they give their host name. Try not supplying a host name in the config at all on the Windows boxes, therefor it can't send anything to update. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message