Why do they hide the version numbers?
Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Fri Apr 13 08:51:11 UTC 2001
>
> What is it about the bind tools that makes it so hard to find out
> which version of anything you are dealing with? Do they intentionally
> want to hide it? dig, nslookup, host and named all have no concept
> of a --version arguement of any type.
>
> In my case, I want to know what version of the tools came with a
> specific Red Hat beta release, as they all segfault on bad data.
>
> vancleef [727] > host -v www ns1
> Trying "www.microunity.com."
> Segmentation fault
> vancleef [728] > dig @ns1 www
> Segmentation fault
> vancleef [729] > nslookup www ns1
> Note: nslookup is deprecated and may be removed from future releases.
> Consider using the `dig' or `host' programs instead. Run nslookup with
> the `-sil[ent]' option to prevent this message from appearing.
> Segmentation fault
Looks like you have a broken gethostinfo() in your libc.
Mark
>
>
> The first thing anyone ever asks is, "What version are you running?"
> Well, with the bind tools, it is hard to know...
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> (Just for completeness: I'm troubleshooting a new bind 9.1.1 install
> and here is what a older version of dig sees - and what causes the
> segmentation faults.)
>
> vancleef [708] > dig @ns1 www
>
> ; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> @ns1 www
> ; (1 server found)
> ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
> ;; got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6
> ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 13, ADDITIONAL: 0
> ;; QUERY SECTION:
> ;; www, type = A, class = IN
>
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> . 6D IN NS E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> . 6D IN NS F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> . 6D IN NS G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> . 6D IN NS H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> . 6D IN NS I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> . 6D IN NS J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> . 6D IN NS K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> . 6D IN NS L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> . 6D IN NS M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> . 6D IN NS A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> . 6D IN NS B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> . 6D IN NS C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> . 6D IN NS D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
>
> ;; Total query time: 61 msec
> ;; FROM: plotter to SERVER: ns1 192.86.6.2
> ;; WHEN: Thu Apr 12 09:07:46 2001
> ;; MSG SIZE sent: 21 rcvd: 232
>
>
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