FW: version question

[Danny Mayer]

         That may be true. However, only the version that gets recorded in the log
when it starts up is a reliable indicator of what you are running on the machine.
Doesn't ps let you see the path to the server that is running?

                 Danny

At 09:44 AM 2/21/01, Timothy.Moseley at hurlburt.af.mil wrote:
>according to what is in the install you don't have to uninstall the old
>version you can just install and the new executables will overwrite the old
>ones, which they did because I copied the old with .old extension and
>checked time stamp and sizes after install.
>
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >From: Danny Mayer [mailto:mayer at gis.net]
> > >Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 10:04 PM
> > >To: Timothy.Moseley at hurlburt.af.mil; agriffin at cpcug.org
> > >Cc: bind-users at isc.org
> > >Subject: RE: FW: version question
> > >
> > >
> > >At 02:57 PM 2/20/01, Timothy.Moseley at hurlburt.af.mil wrote:
> > >
> > >>James just wanted to thank you and the rest for all of the 
> > >responses, what I
> > >>finally ended up doing was taking the dig command that 
> > >Joseph Yao gave and
> > >>running it on the server.
> > >>
> > >>dig txt chaos version.bind @dolphin.mydomainname
> > >>
> > >>it showed the version running as being 8.2.3 even tho named 
> > >-v still shows
> > >>8.2.2-p7. Since I can show actual version with dig command 
> > >its no longer a
> > >>huge priority. I will continue to work with the server to 
> > >see if I can't get
> > >>the other to work properly. To any that asked about the 
> > >version being in the
> > >>options part of my named.conf it wasn't listed there.
> > >         Then you really are running 8.2.2-p7 or that's what 
> > >got compiled in. Or
> > >you have two different versions on disk and the one that's 
> > >running is actually
> > >8.2.3. Either way, you cannot rely on dig to tell you the 
> > >truth since the code
> > >is set up to allow you to lie as a response to those queries.
> > >
> > >         Danny
> > >