dns version

[paul fritzsche_1]

I have an old dns here and need to find out which version is running on it. bind and patches, builds and so on. how do I find that out?

[Muthukumar_5 · Accepted solution]

you can get informations as usign named as,
# what /usr/sbin/named
/usr/sbin/named:
Copyright (c) 1986, 1989, 1990 The Regents of the University of California.
named 4.9.7 Thu Mar 13 09:52:01 GMT 2003 PHNE_28449
# swlist PHNE_28449
# Initializing...
... details ..


HTH.

[Gavin Clarke]

swlist -l product | grep Bind
seems to return something for me.
I don't know if this helps really.

[Sยภเl Kย๓คг]

Paul
lokk at this to get the updated details
http://www.hp.com/products1/serverconnectivity/infolib/dns.html

regards
SK

[harry d brown jr]

get Bind 9.2 from http://software.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=BIND9.2

live free or die
harry

[paul fritzsche_1]

yeah, Im working on getting my company to understand this. At the moment, version 8.1.2 are installed. And that is really old!!! :\

[harry d brown jr]

Paul,

and all versions prior to 9.2 are full of security issues. I had the same issue (with those that don't have, nor can buy a clue) regarding upgrading BIND to 9.2. But I proved that DNS Caching removes a lot of burden off the DNS servers (that are too busy answering ignorant M$ active directory crap [boy they got "active" right - network pig would be more correct]) and provides lightening name resolution at the same time.

Now all of our unix flavors are running Bind 9.2 and DNS Caching. Keep up the fight.

live free or die
harry d brown jr

[Geoff Wild]

dig version.bind chaos txt @localhost

or

dig version.bind chaos txt @remoteserver


Course, you can modify that in the named.conf file like so:

options {
directory "/var/named";
query-source address * port 53;
version "Wild DNS";
blackhole { bogusnets; };
fetch-glue no;
max-cache-size 128M;


Rgds...Geoff