[SunHELP] BIND version.

[Tim Chong]

Or go to the path where the named binaries is installed, and issue this:

# ./named -v

If you man named, you shall see that
-v          Report the version and exit.

Cheers,

Tim

On 2/4/01 02:01, sunhelp-request at sunhelp.org <sunhelp-request at sunhelp.org>
wrote:

> Message: 2
> From: "Rob Staab" <rstaab at etrana.com>
> To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
> Subject: RE: [SunHELP] BIND version.
> Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 13:17:35 -0500
> Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> 
> Or alternately you can force nslookup to cough up the version of Bind.
> 
> bash-2.04$ nslookup
> Default Server:  nameserver.domainname.com
> Address:  <ip address>
> 
>> set querytype=TXT
>> set class=chaos
>> version.bind
> Server:  nameserver.domainname.com
> Address:  <ip address>
> 
> VERSION.BIND    text = "8.2.3-REL"  <---------This is the version of bind on
> the server queried.
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org]On
>> Behalf Of Tom Stockton
>> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 12:43 PM
>> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>> Subject: Re: [SunHELP] BIND version.
>> 
>> 
>> #grep starting /var/adm/messages*
>> 
>> /var/adm/messages.2:Jan  8 14:05:42 plod named[12232]: starting.
>> named 4.9.4-P1
>> 
>> If this produces no output then the messages file does not extend
>> back to when
>> named first started.  In this case send in.named a kill -HUP
>> which should then
>> produce an output from the above command.
>> 
>> Regards
>> 
>> Tom

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Tim Chong <oeyvind at mac.com>
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