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I am curious as to why I am seeing the following in my log file:

Apr 18 09:39:55 Server named[569]: denied update from [192.168.1.1].1026 for
"Ourdomain"
.
.
Apr 18 09:46:27 Server dhcpd: if IN A TBird1234.Ourdomain doesn't exist add
10800 IN A TBird1234.Ourdomain 192.168.1.27: resolver failed.

Server is, well, the server running dhcp and named at IPA 192.168.1.1
TBird1234 is a dhcp client. I am still converting from static IP to dynamic
IP and TBird1234 is the only system on the wired network using dhcp. It is a
Win98SE system that has no trouble connecting to other machines or the
internet.

TBird1234 is *not* in /etc/hosts and is not specifically listed in any of
the zone files. Nor is it assigned a fixed address in /etc/dhcpd.conf.
Apparently something isn't configured correctly because when I telnet from
TBird1234 to the server, it shows up as 192.168.1.27, not TBird1234. I had
assumed that dhcpd would take care of the host/ip tracking, but apparently
not. All the relevant information does go into the leases file, but I assume
something is misconfigured because when I attempt to ping TBird1234 from the
server it comes back with "Unknown host name" and that's not quite what I
was expecting.

I'm wondering if the "denied update" messages I see (for both the server and
TBird1234) are related to this.

Thoughts?

Paul Nixon

--

"Last I checked, it wasn't the power cord for the Clue Generator that
was sticking up your ass." - John Novak, rasfwrj

Quote:> dhcpd is trying to create a nameserver record (pair) on your
> nameserver.  Your nameserver is not configured to allow those
> updates.  Either disable dhcpd's tie-in with DNS, or change DNS so it
> allows updates from your DHCP server.

Thanks for the quick response.

Currently my named.conf file contains the lines:     allow-update { none; };

I have 6 "zone" declarations, 5 of which have the above line. Would I be
correct in assuming I need to change the lines to something like:

zone "localhost" in {
    type master;
    file "caching-example/localhost.zone";
    allow-update {
            127.0.0.1;
            192.168.1.1;
    };

(adding the 127 and 192 lines for each zone)?

Paul Nixon

Paul Nixon