On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 14:19 +0100, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Ralph Angenendt wrote on Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:59:37 +0100: > > > You have a windows machine on the network and it gets its address by dhcp? > > Yeah, I knew that ;-) > > > If so it now tries to tell the name server that it has a new fancy shiny > > address! > > I thought I had configured the client not to do this. But looking now I > don't see such an option. On the other hand, I can't see an option in > named.conf that would allow that. Isn't there a way to tell named to just > ignore/not accept these updates? From the error messages it looks like it > accepts them, but they fail afterwards either because of missing permissions > to the file or rndc or so. Or is there an dhcp option that would tell the > client to stop this? I have "ignore client-updates;" but that obviously is > an option for dhcpd only. ---- by default, BIND will ignore attempts by clients to register dynamic dns after getting an ip address from dhcp - that is what is being logged. You would have to 'allow-update' within a specific zone definition to change default behavior. FWIW - I think that DHCP/BIND and having clients update DNS makes a lot of sense for an office intranet but hey, that's just me. Craig _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos