In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Horne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
