DNS server and PTR records

[Barry Margolin]

In article <a7gves$ml4 at pub3.rc.vix.com>, Danny Mayer  <mayer at gis.net> wrote:
>
>At 09:15 PM 3/22/02, terry white wrote:
>
>>on "3-22-2002" "Barry Margolin" writ:
>>
>>: Look at the startup log message.
>>
>>... is that better than 'named -v' ...
>>
>No.  There is no guarantee that the named binary that's sitting in some
>directory is the version that you are actually running.  It's a common
>occurence that people build new versions but the binary ends up in a
>different place than where they thought and they continue to run the
>old version.  The logs are the only definite location to find out what is
>actually running and responding to queries.

Also, I'm not sure that all versions of BIND support the -v option.  BIND 4
may not, and the OP was worried that he might be running that version
(since he sees a named.boot file).

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