Re: sorry to ruin several of your evenings...

["Christopher L. Morrow" <cmorrow () UU NET>]

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