CHAOS version.bind Question

Re: CHAOS version.bind Question

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At 6:14 PM -0700 9/24/03, Michael Wise wrote:
>At 11:27 AM -0700 9/24/03, Men & Mice Support wrote:
>
>>The response to this query can be set in your options statement
>>(/var/named/conf/options on most servers). However, as you said,
>>updating your version of Bind should update this response.
>
>
>
>Hmmmm,
>
>[mail:/var/named/conf] root# cat options
>//
>// This file was generated by QuickDNS from Men & Mice
>// WARNING: ** DO NOT EDIT **
>//
>options {
> directory "/var/named";
> pid-file "/var/run/named.pid";
> statistics-file "named.stats";
> datasize 20M;
> allow-recursion { any; };
> allow-transfer { localhost; localnets; 64.174.159.37;
>208.197.42.0/23; 10.1.1.0/24; };
>};
>
>
>It says not to edit...should I disregard that?

Yes. Just make sure that you only put substatements of the options
statement in this file, and that what you add is valid. QuickDNS
won't overwrite your additions.

>>Make sure that the correct version of named is being launched.
>
>
>QDNS Manager get-info says BIND 9 is what's being used on the boxes.

It gets that from the config files. There's no way to query the
running named service to find out what version it is, other than the
CHAOS-class query you already know about.

>Also named -v run locally (as either user or root) on one of the
>boxes yields "9.2.3rc4". However, if I ssh into the same box and run
>named-v I get: named 8.3.4-REL Tue Jan 21 14:09:08 GMT 2003
>
>sigfusm@wiggum.menandmice.is:/Users/sigfusm/dev/bind/8.3.4/src/bin/named
>
>Any ideas on why this would be happening?

You have two different versions installed, in different locations.
Which one is in /usr/sbin? That's the one QuickDNS launches when it
starts up.
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