One last W2K / Active Directory / BIND question

[Barry Finkel]

"Simpson, John R" wrote:
>>         The problem appears to be that the W2K server wants to add an A
>> record assigning its IP address to  the name "example.com." -- at least
>> that's the only new record.  The existing record for sp01.example.com was
>> not changed.  The new A record an annoying side effect in the lab, but in
>> our production environment it would be an error.

Danny Mayer <mayer at gis.net> replied:
>If this is a static IP address in the example.com domain, why not add it
>yourself?
>That should stop the update attempts.

That will NOT stop the update attempts.  The netlogon process in W2k 
will attempt to re-register is records every hour.  The code does not
check to see if the "A" record or SRV records still exist in DNS.

I ignore these "denied update" records in my BIND syslog.
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