On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 11:46:55AM +0200, Tommi Komulainen wrote: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 09:23:02AM +0000, Gavin Hamill wrote: > > > > The most useful thing I can think of for the CHAOS class is the following: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test$ nslookup -q=txt -class=CHAOS version.bind. 0 > > > > That'll only work on real nslookup's, which doesn't include the current > > Debian one which complains about being deprecated... > > Well, it's time to learn to use 'dig' and 'host' anyway, so: > > host -c chaos -t txt version.bind. localhost > dig @localhost version.bind. txt chaos
aha! ;; ANSWER SECTION: VERSION.BIND. 0S CHAOS TXT "deceptive version name" okay -- i'm using the 'deception approach' to the security-rife 'bind' (according to posts i've seen here): // in /etc/bind/named.conf (that's where slink put it, and // potato still seems to work from there)... options { version "something as unlike 'BIND' as i can get"; }; that's "chaos"? :) -- It is always hazardous to ask "Why?" in science, but it is often interesting to do so just the same. -- Isaac Asimov, 'The Genetic Code' [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://newbieDoc.sourceforge.net/ -- we need your brain! http://www.dontUthink.com/ -- your brain needs us!