From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 11 23:30: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from 100m.mp200-1.esr.lvcm.net (100m.mp200-1.esr.lvcm.net [24.234.0.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AF7137B507 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 23:29:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@chrisangell.com) Received: from redqueen.chrisangell.com (cm196.122.234.24.lvcm.com [24.234.122.196]) by 100m.mp200-1.esr.lvcm.net (Mirapoint) with ESMTP id ABL85448; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 23:29:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 23:35:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Angell To: Linh Pham Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DNS Question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Version 8.2.3-T5B is being run on my system. That explains my 'named' shutting down periodically. Thanks for your help; I will update tomorrow! I hope the update is seamless as I will only upgrade the executables and obviously not the named files. Thanks for your help. If there's anything I could help you with feel free to contact me. Sincerely, Chris Angell On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Linh Pham wrote: > On 2001-04-11, Chris Angell scribbled: > > # Apr 11 21:38:03 named[49549]: XX /211.219.153.124/version.bind/TXT/CHAOS > > If you run nslookup with: > > set type=txt > set class=chaos > version.bind > > on most DNS servers running BIND, it will return the release/version > string. So you are getting a lot of people who are trying to see which > version of BIND you are running and try to hack it if it's a version > that has vulnerabilities. > > Which version of BIND are you running? If you are running BIND > 8.2.3-Txx, then you should upgrade to at least 8.2.3-REL. BIND 9.1.x-REL > is recommended since it has dropped quite a bit of the legacy (and > buggy) BIND code. > > BIND 8 and BIND 9 are available from Ports... just make sure that you > cvsup/sync up your ports collection before building from your current > ports collection. > > -- > Linh Pham > [lplist@closedsrc.org] > > // 404b - Brain not found > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message