Re: remotely checking the version of bindNT?

But isn't there a simple way of checking the version number remotely,
ie. using a dos window,(on a 2000 machine), and then going in under
nslookup?

I seem to recall a basic version lookup command of some sort?

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On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 18:00:11 -0400, Vinny Abello <vinny@tellurian.com>
wrote:

>At 05:47 PM 6/8/2005, Captain wrote:
>>How can you look up the current version of a
>>bind-NT server remotely?
>
>dig @1.2.3.4 ch txt version.bind
>
>where 1.2.3.4 is the IP of the server in question... This assumes
>that the version numbers haven't been masked with the version option
>in named.conf or other technique. This is for all BIND versions, not just NT.
>
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