BIND Version

[Kevin Darcy]

SunOS 4.1 includes a nameserver based on a really *ancient* version of
BIND, probably 4.8.3. But it's been modified by Sun, so technically it's
not 4.8.3, it's some Sun version. So your lab teacher's question is
technically unanswerable: it's not *any* version of BIND. It's a piece
of Sun software.

Those version numbers you were asking about are the version numbers for
each individual source file. They don't really tell you what the overall
BIND version is, although if you had old source archives you could
probably deduce it.


- Kevin

Yu Kobayashi wrote:

>   Hello. My name is Yu Kobayashi. I'm a graduate student at
> Hiroshima University. I'm currently an associate UNIX
> administrator in my laboratory.
>   One day our lab teacher told us, an administrator and
> myself, to check the version of BIND we're using right
> now. So I have checked most of the archives and tried to
> run the commands to see the BIND version. However, the
> commands like "dig", "in.named -version", "in.named -v"
> don't work at all. So I tried other ways.
>   Here is what I have tried so far:
>
> 1) pisces[5]# what in.named
> in.named:
>         db_dump.c 1.10 89/02/14 SMI
>         db_load.c 1.13 89/02/14 SMI
>         db_lookup.c 1.9 88/05/03 SMI
>         db_reload.c 1.12 88/05/03 SMI
>         db_save.c 1.9 88/05/03 SMI
>         db_update.c 1.9 89/02/14 SMI
>         ns_forw.c 1.15 94/06/16 SMI
>         ns_init.c 1.13 89/02/14 SMI
>          Copyright (c) 1986 Regents of the University of California.
>         ns_main.c 1.19 94/06/16 SMI
>         ns_maint.c 1.13 89/02/22 SMI
>         ns_req.c 1.14 89/02/14 SMI
>         ns_resp.c 1.18 89/02/14 SMI
>         ns_sort.c 1.9 89/02/22 SMI
>         version.c 1.5 88/05/03 SMI
>         strcasecmp.c 1.5 88/02/08 SMI
>
> O.K. I guess the version of BIND is very old, possibly
> older than 4.9.3. But what are those numbers like 1.10,
> 1.13, and so on? Are they important numbers to figure
> out the BIND version?
>
> I have also tried this:
>
> 2) pisces[7]# strings in.named | less
> ......
> ......
> @(#)version.c 1.5 88/05/03 SMI
> SMI 4.1
> res_mkquery(%d, %s, %d, %d)
> %s.%s
> ......
> ......
>
> Here I saw the number 4.1, and our operating system is
> SunOS 4.1.4-JLE1.1.4. So I'm thinking that SMI 4.1 is
> related to the BIND version.
>
>   Here is a question. Is number 4.1 is the BIND version
> we are using, or is there a better way to figure out which
> version of BIND we are using?
>   By the way, nslookup didn't work, either...
>
> --
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>  Yu Kobayashi
>  koba at isl.hiroshima-u.ac.jp
>  http://www.ann.hi-ho.ne.jp/y-kob/
> *************************************