Bind version number
Cricket Liu
cricket at acmebw.com
Tue Feb 15 23:29:23 UTC 2000
> We recently got hacked. They knew they could get us because they used
> dig to find version numbers of bind over a wide range of IP addresses.
> Is there anyway to get DNS to report its version number as <UNKNOWN> or
> some bogus number?
First, upgrade to BIND 8.2.2-P5 (that way, you won't have the
vulnerabilities
that enabled the hacker to break in) and then use:
options {
version "Whatever";
};
cricket
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