Security concern
Brad Knowles
brad.knowles at skynet.be
Fri May 18 00:05:28 UTC 2001
At 12:35 AM +0200 5/18/01, Lordy wrote:
> For security reasons you should think about putting something like
> this into your BIND configuration file:
>
> options {
> version { "GO AWAY !" };
> };
This only works for BIND 8 and above. BIND 4 does not use
/etc/named.conf, or the configuration file syntax you provided.
Moreover, history has proven that security through obscurity, well, isn't.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>
/* efdtt.c Author: Charles M. Hannum <root at ihack.net> */
/* Represented as 1045 digit prime number by Phil Carmody */
/* Prime as DNS cname chain by Roy Arends and Walter Belgers */
/* */
/* Usage is: cat title-key scrambled.vob | efdtt >clear.vob */
/* where title-key = "153 2 8 105 225" or other similar 5-byte key */
dig decss.friet.org|perl -ne'if(/^x/){s/[x.]//g;print pack(H124,$_)}'
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