Version Displays

Nate Campi nate at wired.com
Fri Sep 7 19:21:31 UTC 2001


On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 07:05:40PM +0000, pelln at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu.invalid wrote:
> 
> James Kelty <jamesk at ashlandagency.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hello!
> 
> > When running the command:
> > $ dig @somewhere.com version.bind chaos txt
> > Ususally you can get the remote named version number.
> 
> > Is there anyway to change this version number to whatever
> > I would like it to be rather than the version of bind I am running?
> 
> Have you read the manual ?  Mine says :
> options {
>     [ version version_string; ]
> 
> See "http://www.ipsec.nu/dns/bind9/Bv9ARM.ch06.html#AEN1854" for the bind-9
> manual. bind-8 has a simular option.

My favorite is:

options {
        version "surely you must be joking";
	...
}
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