Denied update

[Lisa Casey]

Hi,

Sorry about my earlier two posts. My computer was misbehaving.
I fixed that... .

I have a problem which I can't seem to resolve by going to the bat book, so
I'm hoping to get some help here. I'm running BIND 8.2.5-REL.

We're hosting a virtual domain for a customer. He is running a Windows NT
(or 2000, not entirely sure which) server at his office. He has begun
running either a DNS server on that machine or a DHCP server (again, I'm not
sure if he is running one or the other or both). I'm seeing the following in
my logs:

Sep  8 21:09:04 i2000 named[107]: denied update from [216.170.250.164].2171
for "oregansinc.com" IN

Now if he is trying to pull the zone file for his domain from my DNS server,
that's fine with me. I thought (from the reading I've done) that Bind 8
would allow zone transfers to anyone unless they were specifically denied.
But, since I was seeing this message in my log, I edited /etc/named.conf as
so:

zone "oregansinc.com" {
        type master;
        file "M/oregansinc.com.db";
        allow-transfer { 208.254.209.226; 65.207.130.4; };
};

I'm still getting the same stuff in the logs though. You think maybe he's
trying to do something with DHCP and not dns? Would that produce the same
log message?

Thanks,

Lisa Casey, Webmaster
Netlink 2000, Inc.
lisa at jellico.net