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This post relates to pre-Leopard versions of Mac OS X. Unfortunately, Leopard hosts that are configured via DHCP use the DHCP assigned DNS server before any statically configured servers. Check out the next post in this series to find the necessary tweaks for Leopard.
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This information is really geared for pre-Tiger versions of OS X. In OS X 10.4 (Tiger), the BIND daemon is controlled by launchd and is pre-configured (although disabled). BIND Startup in Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) has more detailed information. Although outdated, this article still includes useful information …
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By default, a BIND DNS server will report which version it is running to anyone that's interested. All it takes is a simple lookup of the version.bind text record in the chaos class of your server. Check this out:
Skadi:~ slap$ dig version.bind txt chaos @localhost
; <<>> DiG 9 …
