8.1.2 vs 8.2.2p5 and Sun

[Barry Finkel]

Sam Wilson wrote:

>A colleague runs Sun's BIND which announces itself as 8.1.2.  I suggested
>he ought to upgrade as per
><http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind-security-19991108.html>.  A Sun
>engineer replied to his asking about this by saying that Sun's patches
>don't upgrade version numbers, but that all the 6 off the issues listed at
>the ISC site will have been addressed by a patch (107018).

I have no idea what Sun does with BIND - does it make changes to the
source?  This may be similar to sendmail, where the Sun-supplied
sendmail has a different version string than that in the sendmail.org
source.  What you can do is this:

     cd ....
     strings named | grep named

When I run that command on one of my DNS servers, I get these two lines
(among others):

     @(#)named 8.2.2-P5 Mon Nov 29 10:30:19 CST 1999 ...
     named 8.2.2-P5 Mon Nov 29 10:30:19 CST 1999

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