BIND servers can be remotely queried for their version

[Thor Kottelin]

BIND Users Mailing List wrote:

> From: wen <wen at hisense.qd.sd.cn>

> BIND servers can be remotely queried for their version.this feature could be used by attackers to remotely probe machines for vulnerable versions of BIND to be exploited in later attacks.
> now my BIND version is 8.2. how to cancel this fault?

IIRC, you can use

options {
	version "";
};

Thor

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