named, update denied.

[Danny Mayer]

At 04:28 PM 7/7/2004, Sten Carlsen wrote:
>Ok, that is the question. W2k has a default setting in its tcpip
>properties that says "update DNS with my name and IP" something like
>that. That means it will every 10 seconds or so try to update the
>nameserver given to it to reflect its presence. If you don't want this
>to happen, you should manually turn this "feature" off in properties for
>the network port in question.
>
>This is much more annoying when you have the nameserver on a dial-up
>connection (I had via an ISDN-router) it will call the nameserver to get
>that updated about every 10 seconds as long as it is on.

I don't think that's correct. It will try every 10, 20,30, 40, 50, 60 minutes
and then recycle back to 10, 20,... until it succeeds. Even if it suceeds 
it will
reregister the address every 24 hours. This is for W2k systems. I read the
documentation on this process. I forget where.

Danny