Number of zones

Simon Waters Simon at wretched.demon.co.uk
Wed May 8 00:16:21 UTC 2002


Kevin Darcy wrote:
> 
> Len Conrad wrote:
> 
> > >I think this is because there is an internally-defined "zone" for the
> > >VERSION.BIND, etc. stuff. If you define your own CHAOS-class zone for this
> > >in named.conf, then probably the numbers will equate.
> >
> > btw, what happened to :
> >
> > @   ch txt authors.bind.
> >
> > ??
> 
> An attack of modesty?

It is still in 9.2.0 - okay I'm lagging a release or so. It now
disappears if you set the "version" string in options. I think I
may have inspired this change, either that or a case of "fools
seldom differ". I was having an "anti leaking" information
campaign at the time, but of course if the server offers
recursion it is fairly easy to fingerprint BIND 9, and early
versions of 9 can also be fingerprinted as they usually answer
the authors.bind query.


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