Re: DNS question ?

[Abe Getchell <agetchel () KDE STATE KY US>]

Hi Lars,
        Tell your dial-up users to uncheck 'Register this connection's
address in DNS' on their Win2k machines.  It's in the TCP/IP properties,
after pressing advanced, under the DNS tab.

Thanks,
Abe

Abe L. Getchell - Security Engineer
Division of System Support Services
Kentucky Department of Education
Voice   502-564-2020x225
E-mail  agetchel () kde state ky us
Web     http://www.kde.state.ky.us/



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Evensen Lars Christian
> [mailto:Lars.Christian.Evensen () NETCOM-GSM NO]
> Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 5:04 AM
> To: INCIDENTS () SECURITYFOCUS COM
> Subject: DNS question ?
>
>
> Hi
>
> After scanning thru our DNS security log, i notice a lot of
> entries on the
> form
>
> notice; denied update from [xxx.yyy.zzz.www] for
> "zzz.yyy.xxx.in-addr.arpa".
>
> All these IP-addresses belong to our dialin nodes.
>
> I have been told that this is probably windows 2000/NT trying
> to announce it
> self to the nameserver. Do anyone know if this is the case,
> or is this a
> more serious issue i have on my hands.
>
> Regards
> Lars Evensen