Question regarding dynamic updates

[Mark Andrews]

In message <d435f5046c9a2ced2a175c6b9bd4cf06 at cornell.edu>, John Wobus writes:
> I've been told that Microsoft's DNS server allows a zone to be updated
> dynamically, yet some names in the zone be protected from changes via
> dynamic updates.  And I was told that BIND lacks this feature, having 
> its granularity of
> control strictly by zone.  I would assume Microsoft's GUI makes this 
> simple to manage,
> :-) but the mechanism would be functionally like having a list of names 
> stored somewhere
> that the dynamic update mechanism would refuse to modify in the zone 
> file.

	Named can control down to the record type.
	See update-policy.

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