Versions of Bind

[James Housley]

"Cinense, Mark" wrote:
> 
> Greetings all,
> 
>         Does anyone know how to remotely check different versions of BIND
> without having to login to the nameserver.  I tried this, and nslookup
> returned unknown query class.
> 
> nslookup -q=txt -class=CH version.bind. ns1.sandia.gov
> 
that failed for me, but

housley at baby:~ {3} nslookup -q=txt -class=CHAOS version.bind.
ns1.sandia.gov 
Server:  ns1.sandia.gov
Address:  132.175.1.3

VERSION.BIND    text = "8.2.2-P5"

CHAOS instead of CH works.

Jim
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