[Pdns-users] Cannot turn off webserver and bind.version

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> Is it just me or option 'webserver=no' has no effect at all in latest
> stable authoritative version ?I am running multiple vhost instances and
> the port 8081 keeps conflicting.
>
> Running pdns_server --webserver=no also is of no use!

I can confirm that. But as a workaround this config statement prevents 
the webserver start for me:

webserver-port=

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> Also, the 'version-string=anonymous' doesn't send a servfail unlike to
> what mentioned in the docs.

I can not confirm that:

version-string=anonymous
    $ dig +norecurse +nocmd +noquestion version.bind @localhost TXT ch
    ;; Got answer:
    ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 12886
    ;; flags: qr aa; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

version-string=full
    dig +norecurse +nocmd +noquestion version.bind @localhost TXT ch
    ;; Got answer:
    ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 2591
    ;; flags: qr aa; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

    ;; ANSWER SECTION:
    version.bind.           5       CH      TXT     "Served by POWERDNS 
3.0 $Id: packethandler.cc 2231 2011-07-11 07:25:27Z ahu $"


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