How can you secure this information RE: Easy way to determine BIN D version remotely?

[Christian Stratton]

How can you stop the version from being able to be listed. Is there a statement I have to put in the named.conf?
Thanks
Christian D. Stratton




-----Original Message-----
From: Len Conrad [mailto:lconrad at Go2France.com]
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 6:59 AM
To: bind-users at isc.org
Subject: RE: Easy way to determine BIND version remotely?


dig @ns.domain.com txt chaos version.bind.




>YOu can do
>
>nslookup > set class=chaos
>nslookup > set type=txt
>nslookup > version.bind
>
>This will give you the bind vesion.
>
>Hope it helps
>+DJ
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 3:56 AM
>To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
>Subject: Easy way to determine BIND version remotely?
>
>
>
>Is there a straightforward way to see either or both of
>the BIND version, or other DNS software version that a
>particular DNS server is running, if I don't have root
>access to the machine?
>
>Someone mentioned using nslookup for such a query but I
>can't see anything that gives that kind of information.
>
>TIA,
>
>
>Phil
>
>
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