Hiding BIND version in named.conf

[J.D. Bronson]

At 08:41 AM 7/14/2004, Thomaschewski, Holger (LDS) wrote:

>Hi folks!
>
>my problem is to hide the version of bind on my dns server.
>Under RedHat8.0 and Bind 9.2.1 it's no problem. I put the option:
>
>            version "anything else";=20
>
>into my /etc/named.conf and it's OK.
>On my second NS there runs Bind 8.1.2 under HP-UX 11.1 and=20
>the NAMED says by starting:
>
>          syntax error near 'version' =20
>
>in my /var/log/messages.


Here is how I have it and it works:


options {
  version "No version info available (refused).";
};





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