Below is a copy of my original post with answers inline -

How do I determine which version of BIND is being

run on Solaris V2.5.1 with a fairly recent patch set?

Wales Wong provided this clever solution.

nslookup -class=chaos -q=txt version.bind.

If this can't work, try

        strings in.named | grep "(#)named"

Andrew M Townsend wrote:

>

> Hi -

>

> Run this:

>

> in.named -d 2

>

> Will run named and create the following output file:

>

> /var/tmp/named.run

>

> The first few lines of which will resemble the following (this is from my last active debug run):

>

> # more named.run

> Debug turned ON, Level 2

> Version = named 4.9.3-P1

> bootfile = /etc/named.boot

If I decide that it is worthwhile, where would I find

off the 'Net the latest version of BIND?

Karl Vogel among others replied with the info below -

     BIND source code:

          ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/src/8.1.1/bind-contrib.tar.gz

          ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/src/8.1.1/bind-doc.tar.gz

          ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/src/8.1.1/bind-src.tar.gz

     Binaries:

          http://smc.vnet.net/solaris_2.5_nof.html

Where might I find a fairly recent version of SPARC

binaries for both sendmail & bind for V2.5.1?

(I'm lazy and have more to do than time to do it all.)

A number of folks pointed me at -

www.sendmail.org

However I never did find binaries for either of these.