unapproved update - what does that mean??

Fri Jan 28 14:29:49 UTC 2000

Someone from 198.88.186.181 is trying to use nsupdate or some similar program
to try to put an entry into your perfectwebsolutions.com.

You can see from dig, that it's coming from servercom.com and they have their
DNS wrong. :-)

dig -x  198.88.186.181

; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> -x
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 4
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      181.186.88.198.in-addr.arpa, type = ANY, class = IN

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
186.88.198.in-addr.arpa.  1D IN SOA  ns.servercom.com.186.88.198.in-addr.arpa. hostmgr.servercom.com. (
                                        34              ; serial
                                        1D              ; refresh
                                        6H              ; retry
                                        1W              ; expiry
                                        1D )            ; minimum

 In a previous message, Duane Cox said:
> 
> 
> we host the domain perfectwebsolutions.com on our ns.servercom.com
> and the following error occurs very often.. whats up??
> 
> Jan 26 06:33:11 hybrid-catv named[300]: unapproved update from [198.88.186.181].20493 for perfectwebsolutions.com
> Jan 26 06:33:11 hybrid-catv named[300]: unapproved update from [198.88.186.181].20499 for perfectwebsolutions.com
> Jan 26 06:33:11 hybrid-catv named[300]: unapproved update from [198.88.186.181].20505 for perfectwebsolutions.com
> Jan 26 06:33:12 hybrid-catv named[300]: unapproved update from [198.88.186.181].20511 for perfectwebsolutions.com
> Jan 26 06:33:12 hybrid-catv named[300]: unapproved update from [198.88.186.181].20517 for perfectwebsolutions.com
> Jan 26 06:33:13 hybrid-catv named[300]: unapproved update from [198.88.186.181].20523 for perfectwebsolutions.com
> Jan 26 06:33:13 hybrid-catv named[300]: unapproved update from [198.88.186.181].20529 for perfectwebsolutions.com
> Jan 26 06:33:14 hybrid-catv named[300]: unapproved update from [198.88.186.181].20535 for perfectwebsolutions.com
> Jan 26 06:33:14 hybrid-catv named[300]: unapproved update from [198.88.186.181].20541 for perfectwebsolutions.com
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> duane cox
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> 

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