On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 09:35 -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 10:05 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > > 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? > ---- > don't know for sure...possibly could happen. The static entries have the > same format as dynamic entries and probably the only difference is their > TTL. > > It wouldn't be too hard to figure out if that happened though. ---- I should also add that you could create a dynamic zone to prevent this from happening. Craig