[Gllug] event log mystery

Martin A. Brooks martin at hinterlands.org
Mon Sep 19 13:56:18 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 13:18 +0100, paul wrote:
> I keep seeing this in the event logs and wondered if someone could tell me 
> what is being denied and whether this is directly related to the command that 
> always preceeds it "ourserver" etc.

One of your machines (probably one using DHCP) is trying to update the
DNS server with its host information.  Approximately speaking, this is
"dynamic DNS".  Your server is not set up to allow these updates and is
refusing to do so.

> ourserver is the name of the local server and ourcompany.local is the local 
> network. I'm assuming it is something to do with the DNS server.
> what is the number after the 192.168.1.21 reffering to?

The number is the remote port being used.

Mart.

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