Ancient BIND version?

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Wed Apr 12 14:41:28 UTC 2000


In article <200004121435.JAA14395 at achilles.ctd.anl.gov>,
Barry Finkel  <b19141 at achilles.ctd.anl.gov> wrote:
>To find the version of BIND this might work:
>
>     strings named | grep "[0-9]" | more
>
>I ran it on a Solaris 2.6 box (/usr/sbin/in.named), and I saw
>
>     $Id: Version.c,v 8.1 1994/12/15 06:24:14 vixie Exp $
>     named 4.9.4-P1
>
>Obviously Sun does not supply the latest version of BIND.  I have
>installed (and run) 8.2.2-p5 in another directory.

Sun switched to BIND 8 in Solaris 7.  It came with 8.1.2, I believe.

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