[6958] in bugtraq
Re: Silly patch to report version.bind requests
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Svensson)
Fri Jun 12 15:44:09 1998
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 20:39:49 +0200
Reply-To: Peter Svensson <petersv@DF.LTH.SE>
From: Peter Svensson <petersv@DF.LTH.SE>
X-To: "Craig H. Rowland" <crowland@PSIONIC.COM>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980610171407.8195A-100000@dolemite.psionic.com>
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Craig H. Rowland wrote:
> While I don't suspect this will break anything, I would like to hear if it
> does. I've been running the patch without incident, but no guarantees as
> usual.
On the other hand the version request feature is very much used among dns
operators to track down errors. A lot of traffic on the bind mailing lists
was regarding how to find out the version number of a remote bind
installation. It had proven very helpful to us on many occasions so I hope
not too many people will use this patch.
Peter
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