Re: BIND/DNS Version check

["Nexus" <nexus () patrol i-way co uk>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Asim Shaikh" <wezmaster () hotmail com>

[snip]

> I would like to know if there is any tool out there which can check for
> version of BIND/DNS running on the server.. or a scanner which can scan
for
> the possible BIND/DNS vulnerabilites..
>
> I would like to know tools available on both paltform *nix and also Win32.

You can use nslookup or dig, one or both of which will usually be on either
Win32 or *NIX.
nslookup -q=txt -class=chaos version.bind ns0.example.com or
dig @ns0.example.com -c chaos version.bind txt
and look at http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind-security.html for any
results you get.

Cheers.


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