unapproved update from

[Barry Margolin]

In article <392144B1.7E905CF7 at gmx.de>, Bernd Euler  <euversum at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>hi,
>
>this is a part of my message log.
>unapproved update from [212.185.240.73].1970 for sista.de
>
>we host this domain sista.de
>and in the named.conf is the option
>allow-transfer { x.x.x.x; };
>
>to restrict the permission for zone transfer.
>
>but what does unapproved update from ... mean???

It means that 212.185.240.73 tried to make a change to your domain.  Since
they're not in the allow-update access list (if you don't have an
allow-update statement, the default is that nobody is allowed) the
attempted update wasn't approved and was ignored.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
Genuity, Burlington, MA
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