On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 14:19 +0100, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
Ralph Angenendt wrote on Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:59:37 +0100:
You have a windows machine on the network and it gets its address by dhcp?
Yeah, I knew that ;-)
If so it now tries to tell the name server that it has a new fancy shiny address!
I thought I had configured the client not to do this. But looking now I don't see such an option. On the other hand, I can't see an option in named.conf that would allow that. Isn't there a way to tell named to just ignore/not accept these updates? From the error messages it looks like it accepts them, but they fail afterwards either because of missing permissions to the file or rndc or so. Or is there an dhcp option that would tell the client to stop this? I have "ignore client-updates;" but that obviously is an option for dhcpd only.
---- by default, BIND will ignore attempts by clients to register dynamic dns after getting an ip address from dhcp - that is what is being logged.
You would have to 'allow-update' within a specific zone definition to change default behavior.
FWIW - I think that DHCP/BIND and having clients update DNS makes a lot of sense for an office intranet but hey, that's just me.
Craig