Hiding the version number

[Thomas Renzy]

dig @<servername> chaos txt version.bind


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Thomas Renzy 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Fullmer [mailto:jon at jonfullmer.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 2:14 PM
To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
Subject: Hiding the version number



Our security scanner mentioned that they can determine the version number of
BIND that we're running, and that while this isn't a major security hazard,
it's best to be disabled.  I THINK I've figured out that I can control the
display of the BIND version information using the "version" command in the
"options" section. 

What I want to know is, how can I test this?  I've been looking for some way
to issue a dig command that would tell me my server's version of BIND, but I
can't find it.  How is this done?

 - Jon