Did you do a search for this on Google? I've never seen anything like it. It looks like the firewall is trying to update ns1 and is not allowed. It could be a bad forwarders entry. What does: /etc/ipf.rules /etc/ipnat.rules have in it? JLF Sends... It seems like on Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 11:54:56AM -0700, Mike Starke scribbled: Orig Msg> Ever since I replaced my Linux firewall with OpenBSD I Orig Msg> have begun receiveing these errors on my name server. Orig Msg> Orig Msg> Jan 10 12:20:05 ns1 named[11699]: unapproved update from Orig Msg> [].12471 for .com Orig Msg> Orig Msg> Orig Msg> I have checked resolv.conf on both machines, I have ensured Orig Msg> I have reverse mapping for the FW, In short I feel I have Orig Msg> checked everything. This error is getting written to syslog Orig Msg> approx every 3-5 minutes. Orig Msg> Orig Msg> Anyone want to throw me a bone? Orig Msg> Jean Francois - JLF Sends... President & CEO - MagusNet, Inc., MagusNet.com, MagusNet.Gilbert.AZ.US MagusNet, Inc. - Design * Develop * Integrate Director Of Managed Services - OpNIX,Inc., www.opnix.com OpNIX - Simply Better Bandwidth My Certifications: http://www.magusnet.com/resume.txt Doing my part to educate the Clubie Illiterati. One LART at a time!