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From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To: Martyn Hill <martyn_hill@lineone.net>
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Subject: Re: Errors using Dynamic DNS update from DHCP
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On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 06:44:47PM -0000, Martyn Hill wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Our school network relies on a local caching nameserver running on FreeBSD
> 4.4STABLE and BIND 8.2.4 / DHCP v3.0 with dynamic updates (successfully?)
> running.
> 
> Browsing the message log on the box reveals heaps of messages of the
> following ilk...
> 
> Jan 11 15:35:03 sjrouter dhcpd: if IN A SJSG062M.st-james.net domain doesn't
> exist add 345600 IN A SJSG062M.st-james.net 10.0.1.2 add 345600 IN TXT
> SJSG062M.st-james.net "3163cb3d963493c8c717b85bfc3394c9dd": domain already
> exists.
> Jan 11 15:35:03 sjrouter named[570]: error processing update packet
> (NXRRSET) id 19267 from [10.0.0.200].1161
> 
> and others refering to (YXDOMAIN)
> 
> The IP 10.0.0.200 refers to the local FreeBSD box (on its internal subnet
> NIC). This IP is allowed to make updates in the named.conf and seems to
> suceed.
> 
> The messages arrive in force when wireless WinME clients connect, but occur
> regularly with static Win2k workstations also.
> 
> Are these messages of concern?

If you don't want the dhcpd to try to update the named-database,
add this to your dhcpd.conf:
    ddns-updates            off;
    ddns-update-style       none;

Edwin

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