Easy way to determine BIND version remotely?

[P_K_Pandita]

It does not always....One more crude way to find the bind version could be
to use the strings command.

strings /usr/sbin/named|grep named
and find out the version from there.

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On Mon, 1 May 2000, Jangalwa, Raj wrote:

> YOu can do
> 
> nslookup > set class=chaos
> nslookup > set type=txt
> nslookup > version.bind
> 
> This will give you the bind vesion.
> 
> Hope it helps
> +DJ
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> 
> 
> Is there a straightforward way to see either or both of
> the BIND version, or other DNS software version that a 
> particular DNS server is running, if I don't have root 
> access to the machine?
> 
> Someone mentioned using nslookup for such a query but I
> can't see anything that gives that kind of information.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> 
> Phil
> 
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