Win2K picking away at my named

[tmaestas at dnsconsultants.com]

	This has nothing to do with the ISP.  It's the default
	behavior of Win2k.  Skills have nothing to do with it
	either.  In any case, who are you or I to say only people
	of a certain skill-set should be allowed to use the
	Internet?  Last I checked there was not a test someone
	had to pass before they were issued a dialup account.  As
	I stated before, the update attempts are not hurting you
	nor your name server.  You're spinning your wheels trying
	to get the ISP to take action against the clients, who
	have done nothing wrong other than to use Win2k.

-Tim



On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, David Blinder wrote:

> For now I set up a cron to send the latest list of update requests to the
> DSL provider once a day. Don't you think the ISP should take some
> resposibility for bringing less skilled people into the Internet?
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tmaestas at dnsconsultants.com [mailto:tmaestas at dnsconsultants.com]
> Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 12:27 PM
> To: dave
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: Win2K picking away at my named
> 
> 
> 
> 	This is the default behaviour of Win2k.  All Win2k clients
> 	will attempt to register their forward and reverse records
> 	in DNS.  I doubt you will be succesful in *forcing* this
> 	individual to reconfigure the workstation.  As it is, it
> 	is hurting nothing, so it's probably best to ignore it.  Or,
> 	configure a logging channel for these messages so that they
> 	don't clutter up your main log.
> 
> -Tim
> 
> 
> On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, dave wrote:
> 
> > I've read many of the posts from others explaining how a WIN2K system will
> > ask bind for an update on their Linux server running named.
> >
> > In this case, I am getting requests for updates from a Win2K machine where
> > the "Admin" has set up the machine with the domain xxx.com. I own and host
> > xxx.com on my linux boxes as well as run the DNS for xxx.com. I keep
> getting
> > his requests for update messages and I want to make him go away. I have
> told
> > his DSL provider to fix his customer but they do nothing.
> >
> > I would like to do something that would make this person want to
> reconfigure
> > their Win2K machine.
> >
> > Below is the message I am receiving from named:
> >
> >
> > Mar 24 08:47:23 doc named[2358]: denied update from [64.204.236.4].52701
> for
> > "a domain on my system.com"
> >
> > --
> > David C. Blinder
> > dave at dobusiness.com
> > VP Internet Division
> > Executive Business Service, Inc.
> > 5473 Kearny Villa Rd.
> > Suite 210
> > San Diego,CA 92123
> >
> > President
> > Association of Internet Professionals
> > San Diego Chapter
> > dave at blinder.com
> > dblinder at association.org
> > http://sandiego.us.association.org
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
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