BIND Version

[Tiago Cury - Sun do Brasil]

Hello Kobayashi,


My Operating System is SunOS 5.7 (Solaris 7). 


Try this command:

# strings /usr/sbin/in.named |grep BIND


Output:

;BIND LOG V8
;BIND DUMP V8
VERSION.BIND
BIND
@(#)in.named BIND 8.1.2 Tue Nov 10 18:16:24 PST 1998 Generic 
107018-01-5.7-September 1998
in.named BIND 8.1.2 Tue Nov 10 18:16:24 PST 1998
BIND 8.1.2


Okay, BIND version 8.1.2


tanks,
Tiago



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>   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...
> 
> 
> -- 
> *************************************
>  Yu Kobayashi
>  koba at isl.hiroshima-u.ac.jp
>  http://www.ann.hi-ho.ne.jp/y-kob/
> *************************************
> 
> 


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