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60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein>Appendices</TITLE
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60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob AusteinSUMMARY="Header navigation table"
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60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein>BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual</TH
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60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein>Appendix A. Appendices</A
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein>Table of Contents</B
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein>Acknowledgements</A
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob AusteinHREF="Bv9ARM.ch09.html#historical_dns_information"
5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews>General <SPAN
5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark AndrewsCLASS="acronym"
5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews> Reference Information</A
f293a69bcd1c1dd7bdac8f4102fc2398b9e475c8Eric LuceHREF="Bv9ARM.ch09.html#bibliography"
5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews>Bibliography (and Suggested Reading)</A
f293a69bcd1c1dd7bdac8f4102fc2398b9e475c8Eric LuceCLASS="sect1"
f293a69bcd1c1dd7bdac8f4102fc2398b9e475c8Eric LuceCLASS="sect1"
f293a69bcd1c1dd7bdac8f4102fc2398b9e475c8Eric LuceNAME="AEN4700"
47012ae6dbf18a2503d7b33c1c9583dc38625cb7Mark Andrews>A.1. Acknowledgements</A
f293a69bcd1c1dd7bdac8f4102fc2398b9e475c8Eric LuceCLASS="sect2"
f293a69bcd1c1dd7bdac8f4102fc2398b9e475c8Eric LuceCLASS="sect2"
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob AusteinNAME="AEN4702"
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein>A.1.1. A Brief History of the <SPAN
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob AusteinCLASS="acronym"
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob AusteinCLASS="acronym"
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein>Although the "official" beginning of the Domain Name
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein System occurred in 1984 with the publication of RFC 920, the
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein core of the new system was described in 1983 in RFCs 882 and
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein 883. From 1984 to 1987, the ARPAnet (the precursor to today's
9c6a5d1f22f972232d7a9fd5c5fa64f10bacbdffAutomatic Updater Internet) became a testbed of experimentation for developing the
4abdfc917e6635a7c81d1f931a0c79227e72d025Mark Andrews new naming/addressing scheme in an rapidly expanding,
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein operational network environment. New RFCs were written and
9c6a5d1f22f972232d7a9fd5c5fa64f10bacbdffAutomatic Updater published in 1987 that modified the original documents to
9c6a5d1f22f972232d7a9fd5c5fa64f10bacbdffAutomatic Updater incorporate improvements based on the working model. RFC 1034,
9c6a5d1f22f972232d7a9fd5c5fa64f10bacbdffAutomatic Updater "Domain Names-Concepts and Facilities", and RFC 1035, "Domain
9c6a5d1f22f972232d7a9fd5c5fa64f10bacbdffAutomatic Updater Names-Implementation and Specification" were published and
9c6a5d1f22f972232d7a9fd5c5fa64f10bacbdffAutomatic Updater became the standards upon which all <SPAN
9c6a5d1f22f972232d7a9fd5c5fa64f10bacbdffAutomatic UpdaterCLASS="acronym"
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein> implementations are
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein>The first working domain name server, called "Jeeves", was
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austeinwritten in 1983-84 by Paul Mockapetris for operation on DEC Tops-20
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austeinmachines located at the University of Southern California's Information
71c66a876ecca77923638d3f94cc0783152b2f03Mark AndrewsSciences Institute (USC-ISI) and SRI International's Network Information
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob AusteinCenter (SRI-NIC). A <SPAN
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob AusteinCLASS="acronym"
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein> server for Unix machines, the Berkeley Internet
9c6a5d1f22f972232d7a9fd5c5fa64f10bacbdffAutomatic UpdaterName Domain (<SPAN
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob AusteinCLASS="acronym"
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein>) package, was written soon after by a group of
9c6a5d1f22f972232d7a9fd5c5fa64f10bacbdffAutomatic Updatergraduate students at the University of California at Berkeley under
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austeina grant from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration
47012ae6dbf18a2503d7b33c1c9583dc38625cb7Mark Andrews(DARPA). Versions of <SPAN
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob AusteinCLASS="acronym"
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein> through 4.8.3 were maintained by the Computer
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob AusteinSystems Research Group (CSRG) at UC Berkeley. Douglas Terry, Mark
71c66a876ecca77923638d3f94cc0783152b2f03Mark AndrewsPainter, David Riggle and Songnian Zhou made up the initial <SPAN
71c66a876ecca77923638d3f94cc0783152b2f03Mark AndrewsCLASS="acronym"
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austeinproject team. After that, additional work on the software package
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austeinwas done by Ralph Campbell. Kevin Dunlap, a Digital Equipment Corporation
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austeinemployee on loan to the CSRG, worked on <SPAN
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob AusteinCLASS="acronym"
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein> for 2 years, from 1985
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austeinto 1987. Many other people also contributed to <SPAN
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob AusteinCLASS="acronym"
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein> development
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austeinduring that time: Doug Kingston, Craig Partridge, Smoot Carl-Mitchell,
47012ae6dbf18a2503d7b33c1c9583dc38625cb7Mark AndrewsMike Muuss, Jim Bloom and Mike Schwartz. <SPAN
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob AusteinCLASS="acronym"
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein> maintenance was subsequently
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austeinhandled by Mike Karels and O. Kure.</P
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob AusteinCLASS="acronym"
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein> versions 4.9 and 4.9.1 were released by Digital Equipment
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob AusteinCorporation (now Compaq Computer Corporation). Paul Vixie, then
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austeina DEC employee, became <SPAN
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob AusteinCLASS="acronym"
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein>'s primary caretaker. Paul was assisted
71c66a876ecca77923638d3f94cc0783152b2f03Mark Andrewsby Phil Almquist, Robert Elz, Alan Barrett, Paul Albitz, Bryan Beecher, Andrew
5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark AndrewsPartan, Andy Cherenson, Tom Limoncelli, Berthold Paffrath, Fuat
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob AusteinBaran, Anant Kumar, Art Harkin, Win Treese, Don Lewis, Christophe
5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark AndrewsWolfhugel, and others.</P
5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark AndrewsCLASS="acronym"
5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews> Version 4.9.2 was sponsored by Vixie Enterprises. Paul
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob AusteinVixie became <SPAN
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob AusteinCLASS="acronym"
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob AusteinCLASS="acronym"
71c66a876ecca77923638d3f94cc0783152b2f03Mark Andrews> versions from 4.9.3 onward have been developed and maintained
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austeinby the Internet Software Consortium with support being provided
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austeinby ISC's sponsors. As co-architects/programmers, Bob Halley and
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob AusteinPaul Vixie released the first production-ready version of <SPAN
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob AusteinCLASS="acronym"
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein8 in May 1997.</P
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob AusteinCLASS="acronym"
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein> development work is made possible today by the sponsorship
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austeinof several corporations, and by the tireless work efforts of numerous
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austeinindividuals.</P
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob AusteinCLASS="sect1"
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob AusteinCLASS="sect1"
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob AusteinNAME="historical_dns_information"
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein>A.2. General <SPAN
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob AusteinCLASS="acronym"
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein> Reference Information</A
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob AusteinCLASS="sect2"
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob AusteinCLASS="sect2"
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob AusteinNAME="ipv6addresses"
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein>A.2.1. IPv6 addresses (AAAA)</A
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein>IPv6 addresses are 128-bit identifiers for interfaces and
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austeinsets of interfaces which were introduced in the <SPAN
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob AusteinCLASS="acronym"
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austein> to facilitate
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austeinscalable Internet routing. There are three types of addresses: <SPAN
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob AusteinCLASS="emphasis"
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob AusteinCLASS="emphasis"
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob Austeinan identifier for a single interface; <SPAN
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob AusteinCLASS="emphasis"
60e5e10f8d2e2b0c41e8abad38cacd867caa6ab2Rob AusteinCLASS="emphasis"
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