Re: DNS Version check.

[Peter Thoenen <pthoenen () uwm edu>]

Anybody know a way to do this w/o the chaos record?  Dont' feel like 
editing my named.conf to allow chaos records.  (Have viewed them out)

-Peter

Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 05:59:37PM -0400, Vjay LaRosa wrote:
>
> > Does any one know if it is possible to request the version of bind a 
> > server is running? I would like to write a quick perl script to scan my 
> > network to check all of the versions. Thanks!
>
>
> dig @dnsserver version.bind chaos txt
>
> But keep in mind that this string can be set to anything random
> within the named.conf options-block. (man named.conf and search for
> version.bind).
>
> Edwin