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Re: is your host or dhcp server sending dns dynamic updates for rfc1918?


From: Paul Vixie <paul () vix com>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 08:34:26 -0700


according to http://root-servers.org/, dns transactions concerning rfc1918
address space are now being served by an anycast device near you ...

And right you are. However, pray tell, why doesn't bind feature a simple way
to not log these spurious updates? As far as I can tell lots of people want
to just ignore these messages but can only do so by turning off all security
logging.

that question belongs on bind-users () isc org, i suspect.  but i'll answer: if
you redirect the "update" and "security" categories to channel "null" then it
works like you want.  if there was demand, ISC would make a specific category
called "failed-updates" so that other security related events wouldn't have
to be nulled at the same time.

Please note that PowerDNS is just as silly in this respect up to 1.99.9. The
next version features --log-failed-updates which defaults to off.

not all failed updates are spurious.  i recommend against this as a default.


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