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> Background -  All was well until the boss upgraded the glibc on the
> RedHat server which made all kinds of things unhappy.  Taking the
> opportunity to convert yet another server here to FreeBSD, I built a new
> DNS on FreeBSD 4.9.
>
>
>
> I have noticed a couple of odd things.
>
>
>
> Typing in /usr/sbin/named -v, gets me this:
>
>
>
> named 8.3.6-REL Mon Oct 27 14:55:35 GMT 2003
>
>        root@freebsd-stable.sentex.ca:/usr/obj/usr/src/usr.sbin/named
>
>
>
> which totally doesn't look right since it should be bind 9 something or
> other.  The package was /usr/ports/dns/bind9
>
> which stated in the package description that it would install BIND
> version 9.  Either the binary doesn't know what version it is or the
> package has something funky in it that's yielding the wrong version
> number after compilation.


BIND 9 doesn't install to the same location as BIND 8.
BIND8 usually goes to /usr/sbin/named
BIND9 usually goes to /usr/local/sbin/named

You might want to doublecheck the "named_program" setting in your rc.conf 
to make sure it's pointing at the new location too.