[63117] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Annoying dynamic DNS updates (was Re: someone from attbi please contact me ...)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Yocum)
Sat Sep 27 20:02:15 2003
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 18:56:07 -0500
From: Tim Yocum <tim@yocum.org>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0309271921240.27158-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
In previous mail, Sean Donelan said:
> Are you talking about the kitchen sink protocol called DNS, or trying
> to contact another ISP, or the sociological difficulties of educating
> the general public how to configure very complicated "personal" computers
> and software without making a mistake?
Unfortunately, telling end users to disable a default setting is
rather difficult these days. It's too bad that Microsoft hasn't
addressed this issue in the past several years that it has been
an enabled-by-default option.
> Why is dynamic DNS update enabled by default on some operating systems?
Back in beta days, the official explanation given was that the DNS
updating was a "value add" and that it would never be disabled as
a default as a courtesy to corporate customers. Furthermore, MSFT
folks have repeatedly said that the workaround is to simply configure
your nameserver to silently ignore the error logs.
Neat policy, eh? I would assume that the dynamic updating feature
is something easily toggled via a registry script; larger ISPs ought
to include this "fix" as an option with their installation CDs. Alas,
we get back to the ongoing debate: adjust user prefs for them, for
their own good... or get the vendor to cooperate?
- Tim
