[plug] Mandrake & Printing

[Christian]

navarre at omen.net.au wrote:
> 
> My question is given that bind is not realy called bind, is it not
> named?, the package is called bind? typing

BIND = Berkeley Internet Name Daemon (I think, something similar
anyway).  named is just a generic name for a 'name daemon' in the same
spirit as ftpd, httpd etc.  Because BIND is by far the most popular name
server (at least on Unix), BIND is almost synomymous with 'named'.  I
haven't used dents or dnscache (other name servers) but I wouldn't be
surprised if they called themselves 'named' too which would probably be
quite legitimate.

> bind -V
> 
> shows something to do with bash, am I correct.

The BIND executable is called 'named'.

> 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.

tomcat:~$ dpkg -s bind
Package: bind
Status: install ok installed
Priority: extra
Section: net
Installed-Size: 1149
Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <bdale at gag.com>
Version: 1:8.2.2p5-7
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2), netbase
Suggests: dnsutils, bind-doc
Conffiles:
 /etc/init.d/bind 09693e161a121f6c4e071d60fce07079
 /etc/bind/named.conf 42e0b56ca933d2d1d195d6b9995794a4
 /etc/bind/db.0 8aba258068c8c60a7ade3952a285f57d
 /etc/bind/db.127 64f5cf50e8d8192109dad43b779e5e36
 /etc/bind/db.255 8aba258068c8c60a7ade3952a285f57d
 /etc/bind/db.local 4d038e5af0aa465bdfce60a0d2a7c816
 /etc/bind/db.root cffd2baffb5af8411b011fac3ab5d670
Description: Internet Domain Name Server
 The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) implements an Internet domain
 name server.  BIND is the most widely-used name server software on the
 Internet, and is supported by the Internet Software Consortium,
www.isc.org.

tomcat:~$ dpkg -S /usr/sbin/named
bind: /usr/sbin/named

Regards,

Christian.