Determining version of BIND running on RHEL 4.0 box

[Jeff Lightner]

Just for the record - I didn't write the part about dig.   

In fact dig wouldn't tell you what you need to know any more than named
-v would.  This is because it is the exact RPM package version that is
needed to determine what RedHat back ported version you're running and
you'd still have to go to RedHat's site to determine what features are
in the RPM version.

-----Original Message-----
From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
Behalf Of Sam Wilson
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 11:55 AM
To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
Subject: Re: Determining version of BIND running on RHEL 4.0 box

In article <g9p4kd$1gh2$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 John Horne <john.horne at plymouth.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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

'dig -v' tells you the version of dig that you're using.  *If* it's on 
the same system as the BIND you're trying to check, and *if* it's been 
installed as part of the same BIND package *then* you might be able to 
infer what version of BIND is running, but that's not a very reliable 
test.  :-)

'dig chaos txt version.bind @server' is the usual way, which is OK so 
long as the version hasn't been obscured from the BIND config file.

Sam
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