hiding the version of bind.....

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 09:15:11AM -1000, Bert Nakagawa wrote:
> how do i prevent users from knowing the version of bind that i'm
> running?  if i run dig @mynameserver .......version.bind i receive the
> version that i'm running.  i want to hide this from the public.

FAQ.

FAA:

Why bother?  It doesn't help a whole lot.

However, in the options{} statement, you can put something like:

	version "nine point one point oh, if you really must know.";

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