Bind version

Jim Reid jim at rfc1035.com
Fri Jan 21 20:10:57 UTC 2000


>>>>> "Branko" == Branko  <pcvetano at hotmail.com> writes:

    Branko> I have tried to find out what version of bind my machine
    Branko> (AIX 4.33) use.When I enter "dig @dnsserver txt chaos
    Branko> version.bind." machine respond with "990413.3/26/98M58" .I
    Branko> know it is bind 8.x.x but I need more specific
    Branko> information.Does anybody know meaning of these numbers?

I would expect that the engineer at IBM who put them there does. He or
she must have done that for a reason, so try asking your AIX support
people. Vendors sometimes like to use their own version numbers so
that the software can be tagged as belonging to a particular OS
release or patch number.



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