Determining version of BIND running on RHEL 4.0 box
Sam Wilson
Sam.Wilson at ed.ac.uk
Mon Sep 8 15:54:44 UTC 2008
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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