[34179] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: sorry to ruin several of your evenings...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Tue Jan 30 15:50:32 2001
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 15:45:29 -0500 (EST)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <cmorrow@UU.NET>
To: Stephen Stuart <stuart@mfnx.net>
Cc: poptix@sleepybox.poptix.net, nanog@merit.edu
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Why not jus return some 'bogus' version ??? like this option allows:
version "bad-ass-bind";
:)
--Chris
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On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Stephen Stuart wrote:
> 
> > While it's not exactly a problem, it does give away that you're running
> > bind9 (I do like the new 'version' option where you can set the
> > version.bind reply) even if you change the version to appear to be a bind8
> > server.
> 
> "allow-query" lets you control who can see that information:
> 
> zone "bind" chaos { 
>         allow-query {
>                 127.0.0.1 ;
>                 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/len ;
>         } ;
>         type master; 
>         file "filename"; 
> };
> 
> Stephen
>