MacOS 9 Dynamic DNS Update

[Sam Wilson]

In article <200003061916.MAA15579 at refuge.Colorado.EDU>, Robert Weber
<Robert.Weber at Colorado.EDU> wrote:

>We're having this problem on our domain and I'm not sure how it *should*
>work but I think I figured out how to turn it off.  It's part of the
>file-sharing on OS 9.  There is an option to share dir's over tcp/ip. when
>this is activated it attempts to put a record(presumibly ldap SRV records)
>to point to the shared dir's from the mac.  As long as the filesharing
>through tcp/ip is off our mac's have stopped for now.

It seems you don't need to be quite as drastic as this. Anne-Marie Collins
(message came to me personally but hasn't shown up on the newsgroup here)
has discovered that it's the NSL Manager DNSPlugin that attempts the
dynamic registration.  It can be disabled in the Extensions Manager.  If
you don't allow dynamic updates to your DNS and you don't have any of the
Apple-specific TXT records that the DNSPlugin uses then I don't think you
lose anything by turning it off.

Thanks.

-- 
Sam Wilson
Network Services Division, Computing Services
The University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK