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Bugtraq archives for 2nd quarter (Apr-Jun) 1998: Re: Silly patch to report version.bind requests

Re: Silly patch to report version.bind requests

Peter Svensson (petersvDF.LTH.SE)
Fri, 12 Jun 1998 20:39:49 +0200 

On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Craig H. Rowland wrote:

> While I don't suspect this will break anything, I would like to hear if it
> does. I've been running the patch without incident, but no guarantees as
> usual.

On the other hand the version request feature is very much used among dns
operators to track down errors. A lot of traffic on the bind mailing lists
was regarding how to find out the version number of a remote bind
installation. It had proven very helpful to us on many occasions so I hope
not too many people will use this patch.

Peter
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