update denied

[Steven Job]

Well I do agree that it is malicious.  They are probably just Windows
machines trying to update your machine.

But I do agree that running a windows machine for a server of any kind
is malicious. :)



On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Ragnar Paulson wrote:

> 
> 
> Thanks.  That's what I suspected,  it was just incredulous that there =
> are servers out there blatantly trying to change (hijack?) my zone =
> records.  At least half a dozen different servers all over the world are =
> doing this, and all on the same zone even though this server is Master =
> for several others.
> 
> Regards,
> Ragnar
> 
> ----- Original Message -----=20
> From: "Cricket Liu" <cricket at menandmice.com>
> To: <bind-users at isc.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 4:42 PM
> Subject: Re: update denied
> 
> 
> >=20
> > Ragnar Paulson wrote:
> > > I've just today updated our primary nameserver to Bind 9.2.1 after
> > > running the secondary nameserver as 9.2.1 for a month.  The primary
> > > name server is now regularly logging errors such as:
> > >=20
> > > Jan  8 16:02:32 ns2 named[5341]: error: client 80.38.53.93#28435:
> > > update 'group.com/IN' denied
> > >=20
> > > On the surface this looks like a good thing.  I don't want random
> > > hosts in the Internet "updating" my zone.  But what exactly does it
> > > mean and have I misconfigured something?
> >=20
> > It means that your name server received a dynamic update message
> > from the address 80.38.53.93 and didn't process it, because its
> > configuration didn't say that updates from that address were allowed.
> >=20
> > cricket
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