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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Annoying dynamic DNS updates (was Re: someone from attbi please contact me ...)
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
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