We saw some of those at our site which turned out to be Macintoshes that
try to update their DNS entries but that was only on our own DNS
servers. Most of those addresses are aol dialup IPs, so there's a good
chance is is down to the increased number of Win2k/ME boxes out there.

Cheers,
Jim Halfpenny

Wendell Craig Baker wrote:
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts on a pattern of unapproved updates to DNS?
>
> I'm constantly getting a stream of between five and fifty unapproved updates
> to my DNS servers. Does anyone know anything about this? I had a
> responsible individual at Veritas once tell me that this was a mis-configured
> Windows 2000 network (dhcp). He didn't elaborate but it stopped (from their
> sites).
>

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