How do you tell if its ver. 4 or 8 ??

Cricket Liu cricket at acmebw.com
Mon Sep 27 17:46:31 UTC 1999


Bill Webb <wwebb at adni.net> wrote in message
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> The Bind book aludes to your being able to send a query to a server and
from
> the details provided in the reply thereby determine if that DNS is using
> version 4 or 8.  Can anyone elaborate just a bit ?

% dig @<server> txt chaos version.bind.

or

% nslookup -type=txt -class=chaos version.bind. <server>

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