Odd log entry ? /TXT/CHAOS

Doug Barton DougB at gorean.org
Fri Feb 16 20:43:43 UTC 2001


On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Andrew Stubbs wrote:

> Spotted this in my log - what does it mean ?
>
> 6-Feb-2001 08:34:06.581 queries: X /200.38.233.32/version.bind/TXT/CHAOS

	Someone queried your nameserver to find out its version.

> Running bind : named 8.2.2-P5

	... and they found out that you are running a version that has at
least one guaranteed root exploit. You need to upgrade to 8.2.3
immediately.

Good luck,

Doug
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