Determining version of BIND running on RHEL 4.0 box

[Sam Wilson]

In article <ga7crk$fkb$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Joe Makowiec <makowiec at invalid.invalid> wrote:

> On 04 Sep 2008 in comp.protocols.dns.bind, MaryJane wrote:
> 
> > I'm in the process of learning more about BIND, as I'm now responsible
> > for DNS running on RHEL box.  How do I determine which BIND version is
> > running?  I do not have root privilege
> 
> "man named" leads to:
> 
>        -v     Report the version number and exit.
> 
> With many *nix commands, it's worth trying $COMMAND -v or
> $COMMAND --version if you want to see the version.  If you're on a box 
> that uses yum, you can use "yum info $PACKAGE".  Boxes which use RPM 
> (which, in general, includes boxes that use yum) have a file called 
> "rpmpkgs" in their log directory (/var/log on most) which lists currently 
> installed RPMs and their versions.  If your box uses apt-get, you can try 
> dpkg -l $PACKAGE or dpkg -l|grep $PACKAGE.  These methods can, by and 
> large, be used by an unprivileged user.

There are a couple of problems here.  The OP states that s/he doesn't 
have root access.  S/he therefore may or may not have the necessary 
privilege to run "named -v".  S/he also needs to know the path to named, 
and be sure that that path is to the named that is actually running, in 
case there is more than one named executable on the system.

Sorry about the "s/he" stuff - I'm not sure we can trust the name in a 
Usenet attribution.

Sam