Determining version of BIND running on RHEL 4.0 box

[Sam Wilson]

In article <g9p4kd$1gh2$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 John Horne <john.horne at plymouth.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 11:57 -0400, Jeff Lightner wrote:
> > Run "rpm -qa |grep bind".  This should show you which BIND packages are
> > installed.
> > 
> > To see "version" from BIND's standpoint you'd need to run "named -v" but
> > you may not have permission to do that without root - you may need
> > System Admins to setup sudo access to the named command and other BIND
> > utilities and directories.
> > 
> 'dig -v' may give an indication, or perhaps try:
> 
>           dig -c ch -t txt  version.bind

'dig -v' tells you the version of dig that you're using.  *If* it's on 
the same system as the BIND you're trying to check, and *if* it's been 
installed as part of the same BIND package *then* you might be able to 
infer what version of BIND is running, but that's not a very reliable 
test.  :-)

'dig chaos txt version.bind @server' is the usual way, which is OK so 
long as the version hasn't been obscured from the BIND config file.

Sam