bind newbie - NSUPDATE

Tim Maestas tmaestas at dnsconsultants.com
Thu Nov 16 04:05:22 UTC 2000


> 
> The immediate problem is that atoi.iphere.com is returning NOTAUTH ("Not
> Authorized") to your Dynamic Update -- see the bottom part of the output.
> Looking a little deeper, all of the responses you're getting from 192.168.0.1
> are non-authoritative, even though that server is supposed to be configured as
> master for the zone. It would appear, then, that the zone is not loading
> properly, probably because of a syntax error in the zone file. Because the
> server doesn't consider itself authoritative for the zone, it won't accept any
> Dynamic Updates for it. Look in the log file to see why the zone isn't loading
> properly.


Isn't NOTAUTH "not authoritative", rather than "not authorized"? (as
noted, the server indeed is not authoritative) If the update is not
allowed, shouldn't the server return REFUSED?  

-Tim





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