is there authentication for DDNS

[Cricket Liu]

> I could not find any documentation, or white paper discussing
authentication
> for DDNS.  For example, if a client ie W2K, wants to update zone info, how
> is the client machine authenticated so that the UNIX Bind server allows
the
> client to do so?

For a Windows 2000 client updating a BIND name server,
the only authorization mechanism you have is source IP address.

Windows 2000 clients also support GSS-TSIG, but BIND
name servers don't.

cricket

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