[plug] Mandrake & Printing

[navarre at omen.net.au]

My question is given that bind is not realy called bind, is it not 
named?, the package is called bind? typing 

bind -V 

shows something to do with bash, am I correct.

I looked in /var/log/syslog and no mention of bind or named.

Please inform us debian users how to check the version and
clear up my confusion about the name of this thing.

Regards Navarre

> 
> > > (Question for some home users, new to Linux: are you
> > > running a recent version of BIND with a remote root exploit?  You
> might
> > > be without having any idea that your you-beaut, user-friendly
> > > distribution helpfully installed the DNS server software for you...)
> 
> On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Bret Busby wrote:
>  
> > From a Linux user who probably has the level of knowledge mentioned,
> > "Eh, wot?" 
> 
> 1. Are you running bind?
> 2. What version are you running?
> 
>    (answers to both questions can be found with, iirc, "rpm -qv bind")
> 
> 3. If you are running bind 8.2.something and the version is less than
>    8.2.2 you may be vulnerable to the first bug described in
>    http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-99-14-bind.html ("nxt bug")
>    As a result somebody may already have root access to your machine.
>    Go read the security information pages your linux vendor provides.
>    (Debian's tells us it is not vulnerable to this bug)
> 
>  - Matt