I had the same problem. Upgrading to bind 9.1.0 fixed it for me. Bind 9 (although not without it's quirks) seems to have better access control than bind 8.
John P Foster Jeff Davis wrote: > brian moore wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 10:15:05PM -0800, Jeff Davis wrote: > > > >> I have been having problems with named stopping recently and so I set > >> ndc to debug mode. Later when it stopped again mysteriously, I looked in > >> syslog and saw the follwoing error message. Can someone describe it? > > > > > > Are you running the -current- version? Make sure you check > > http://www.debian.org/security/2001/dsa-026 and upgrade. > > > >> Feb 17 14:39:57 dynworks1 named[30075]: unapproved AXFR from > >> [209.181.17.143].2368 for "64.71.190.34" (not master/slave) > > > > > > It means they are trying to download your zone files. That's a machine > > at HE.NET -- I would ask them. (HE.NET is a hosting provider, but they > > take a VERY dim view of people doing naughty things on their network.) > > > Thanks for your help, I installed the new version (8.2.3, apt-get didn't > see it because it was a security update I guess, which wasn't part of > the sources list). > > The machine 64.71.190.34 is me, I am a machine at HE. I don't know what > that means, I wasn't trying to steal my onw zone files. I don't knwo > what that's about. Unless you were referring to 209.181.17.143, which > isn't me. I have no idea what that IP is. > > I hope the new version fixes my bizarre problem. If you have any more > information please let me know, because I am not sure the problem is solved. > > Thanks again, > Jeff Davis > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]