Re: DNS Version check.

["Jean-Christophe Smith" <jsmith () publichost com>]

dig version.bind txt chaos @your-dns-server.com

But, you can't trust what gets returned if somebody else has access to the
named config files. You can make it return whatever string you want for a
version.

Jean-Christophe Smith
Senior Software Engineer
VitalStream

----- Original Message -----
From: "Vjay LaRosa" <vjayl () emc com>
To: <vuln-dev () securityfocus com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 2:59 PM
Subject: DNS Version check.


> Hello,
>
> Does any one know if it is possible to request the version of bind a
> server is running? I would like to write a quick perl script to scan my
> network to check all of the versions. Thanks!
>
> vjl
>
>
>
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