MacOS 9 Dynamic DNS Update
Anne-Marie Collins
amc at m.larc.nasa.gov
Tue Mar 7 02:45:15 UTC 2000
Disabling the DNS plug-in (for the Network Services Location Manager) in the
Extensions folder has stopped this for us. With the plug-in enabled (the
default), MacOS 9 does try to dynamically update DNS with TXT records.
anne-marie
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Sam Wilson wrote:
> Way back in January Erik Freitag <erik.freitag at pobox.com> responded to a
> question about MacOS 9 Dynamic Updates (I find from looking at
> www.deja.com, but it won't let me post a reply) with a reference to an
> Apple document at
> <ftp://manuals.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Manuals/software/NSLAdminGuide.pdf>.
> That document, however, doesn't seem to address dynamic update, just how
> to put static entries in using TXT records (and allowing the clients to
> transfer the zone to search it - yuck!).
>
> We've just started to hit those annoying "unapproved update" messages in
> our BIND log from Macs as well as Win2K machines and I wondered if anyone
> could provide any further detail on how the MacOS 9 dynamic update stuff
> is supposed to work and, more importantly, how to turn it off.
>
> Thanks in advance...
>
> --
> Sam Wilson
> Network Services Division, Computing Services
> The University of Edinburgh
> Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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