not revealing version number at all

[Kevin Darcy]

That's not quite the same thing -- it returns the string "REFUSED" as the answer to the question.

I think what the original poster wanted was for the query itself to be REFUSED, i.e. RCODE=REFUSED, no
answer. For that, one would need to define the appropriate zone in the CHAOS class, and then restrict
queries to the zone via allow-query.


- Kevin

dns_web2000 at yahoo.com wrote:

> Under options:
>
> options {version "REFUSED"; };
>
> Should do it!
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> "Christopher L. Barnard" <cbar44 at tsg.cbot.com> wrote in message news:<9j47bl$a0f at pub3.rc.vix.com>...
> > I know that one can set the option "version" to make the version number of
> > your server that is returned by dig something ludicrous.  I recently came
> > across a server that does not give a version number at all -- the status is
> > "REFUSED".  I don't see in the doc a way to not respond to a version query at
> > all.  I have two questions for the collective:  do people think this is a good
> > idea or not, and secondly how is this done (since I do not find it in the
> > doc).  Thanks.
> >
> > Christopher
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