use dig! Re: check version

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 09:24:31AM -0400, Fred R. Ziegler wrote:
> Hi stephan.  if you have dig, you can use the following:

Which he hasn't since he's running HP-UX 10.20 ... 
It doesn't include dig. That was introduced in BIND-8.x (I think). 
 
>   dig txt chaos version.bind. @servername

The same in nslookup:

% nslookup
> set qt=txt
> set class=chaos
> version.bind.   
Name Server:  rzcomm1.rz.tu-bs.de
Address:  134.169.9.107

Trying DNS
VERSION.BIND    text = "4.9.7"

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