Bind version number
Bill Manning
bmanning at ISI.EDU
Tue Feb 15 23:56:16 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?
%
% Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
% Before you buy.
Sure, upgrade to a version of Bind that has the has that capability.
Of course this will also close most of the known weaknesses in BIND.
If you think that hiding your version number will increase your
DNS integrity, you are flat out -wrong-.
--bill
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