Logging Question

[Barry Finkel]

Kenneth Kalan <kgk at northwestern.edu> wrote:

>I've noticed my logs getting full of
>
>Apr  3 09:35:29 barney named[379]: [ID 866145 local3.error] client 
>{ip-address-of-client}
>1#1474: update '{domain-name}/IN' denied
>
>This seems to be from Win 2K machines trying to update the DNS, which they 
>are set to do by default (windows default, not mine), but are not allowed 
>to.  I've searched through the archives trying to find the solution.  No 
>one seemed to have an answer except to modify the source code and recompile.
>
>I did, however, find this one link 
>http://www.acmebw.com/askmrdns/archive.php?category=83&question=603 from 
>ask Mr DNS.

I have posted the solution more than once, I believe.  You need to go
to each machine and turn off self-registration.  You can set a W2k
group policy to disable self-registration, but that does not affect
any machines that are already doing self-registration.

If your question was, "How do I keep from logging these messages?",
then IIRC, the answer was that there was no special logging class
for this message.  Turning off that message class will also disable
other messages.
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