[CentOS] After BIND update owner changed and restart failed

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Jan 12 16:05:40 UTC 2009


Craig White wrote:
>
> 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.

I thought when this was first implemented it was possible for client 
updates to override static assignments, so if someone named their 
windows box 'mail' it would become mail.yourdomain in DNS even if it 
wasn't supposed to be.   If that was true, is it fixed now?

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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