Version numbers are printed inconsistently
Most of the BIND utilities report their version number to stderr
. A few print to stdout
instead: named
, named-checkconf
, named-checkzone
. The utilities that print to stderr
then exit(0)
, so they disagree with themselves about whether reporting the version number is an error or not. Since the user asked for the version number it seems more logical to make it a non-error, i.e. print to stdout
and exit(0)
.