Determining version of BIND running on RHEL 4.0 box

John Horne john.horne at plymouth.ac.uk
Thu Sep 4 17:01:03 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 11:57 -0400, Jeff Lightner wrote:
> Run "rpm -qa |grep bind".  This should show you which BIND packages are
> installed.
> 
> To see "version" from BIND's standpoint you'd need to run "named -v" but
> you may not have permission to do that without root - you may need
> System Admins to setup sudo access to the named command and other BIND
> utilities and directories.
> 
'dig -v' may give an indication, or perhaps try:

          dig -c ch -t txt  version.bind


John.

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