Getting "unapproved update from" slave servers
Martin, Kevin
kevinm at crt.com
Wed Aug 25 13:05:35 UTC 1999
What's Bind 8.2.6?
Kevin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Reid [mailto:jim at mpn.cp.philips.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 5:08 AM
> To: Guy Lancaster
> Cc: bind-users at isc.org
> Subject: Re: Getting "unapproved update from" slave servers
>
>
> >>>>> "Guy" == Guy Lancaster <glanca at gesn.com> writes:
>
> Guy> I'm fairly new to setting up DNS servers. I'm running Bind
> Guy> 8.2.6 on Redhat 6.0 on 3 machines. Everything seemed fine
> Guy> for a few days and then today in the master server's log
> Guy> messages I'm getting "unapproved update from" the slave name
> Guy> servers on several zones.
>
> Guy> I should only be getting requests for serial numbers and
> Guy> zone transfers from the slaves. What's happening?
>
> You've probably got some NT5-betas (W2K) boxes in your net and they're
> trying to use Dynamic DNS to register themselves. Hunt these systems
> down and get them to stop doing this. If that's not the case, somebody
> is trying to compromise the integrity of your name servers by
> attempting to change the contents of your domain(s). They're sending
> Dynamic DNS update requests which your name server is rightly refusing
> to accept.
>
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