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ec5347e2c775f027573ce5648b910361aa926c01Automatic Updater>Appendices</TITLE
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ab023a65562e62b85a824509d829b6fad87e00b1Rob Austein>BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual</TH
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1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellington>Appendix A. Appendices</A
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellington>Table of Contents</B
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellington>Acknowledgments</A
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian WellingtonHREF="Bv9ARM.ch09.html#historical_dns_information"
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellington>General <SPAN
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian WellingtonCLASS="acronym"
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellington> Reference Information</A
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian WellingtonHREF="Bv9ARM.ch09.html#bibliography"
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellington>Bibliography (and Suggested Reading)</A
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian WellingtonNAME="AEN4763"
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellington>A.1. Acknowledgments</A
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian WellingtonNAME="AEN4765"
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellington>A.1.1. A Brief History of the <SPAN
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian WellingtonCLASS="acronym"
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian WellingtonCLASS="acronym"
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellington>Although the "official" beginning of the Domain Name
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellington System occurred in 1984 with the publication of RFC 920, the
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellington core of the new system was described in 1983 in RFCs 882 and
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellington 883. From 1984 to 1987, the ARPAnet (the precursor to today's
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellington Internet) became a testbed of experimentation for developing the
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellington new naming/addressing scheme in an rapidly expanding,
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellington operational network environment. New RFCs were written and
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellington published in 1987 that modified the original documents to
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellington incorporate improvements based on the working model. RFC 1034,
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellington "Domain Names-Concepts and Facilities", and RFC 1035, "Domain
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellington Names-Implementation and Specification" were published and
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellington became the standards upon which all <SPAN
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian WellingtonCLASS="acronym"
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellington> implementations are
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellington>The first working domain name server, called "Jeeves", was
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellingtonwritten in 1983-84 by Paul Mockapetris for operation on DEC Tops-20
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellingtonmachines located at the University of Southern California's Information
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian WellingtonSciences Institute (USC-ISI) and SRI International's Network Information
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian WellingtonCenter (SRI-NIC). A <SPAN
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian WellingtonCLASS="acronym"
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellington> server for Unix machines, the Berkeley Internet
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian WellingtonName Domain (<SPAN
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian WellingtonCLASS="acronym"
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellington>) package, was written soon after by a group of
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellingtongraduate students at the University of California at Berkeley under
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellingtona grant from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellington(DARPA). Versions of <SPAN
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian WellingtonCLASS="acronym"
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellington> through 4.8.3 were maintained by the Computer
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian WellingtonSystems Research Group (CSRG) at UC Berkeley. Douglas Terry, Mark
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian WellingtonPainter, David Riggle and Songnian Zhou made up the initial <SPAN
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian WellingtonCLASS="acronym"
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellingtonproject team. After that, additional work on the software package
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellingtonwas done by Ralph Campbell. Kevin Dunlap, a Digital Equipment Corporation
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellingtonemployee on loan to the CSRG, worked on <SPAN
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian WellingtonCLASS="acronym"
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellington> for 2 years, from 1985
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellingtonto 1987. Many other people also contributed to <SPAN
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian WellingtonCLASS="acronym"
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellingtonduring that time: Doug Kingston, Craig Partridge, Smoot Carl-Mitchell,
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian WellingtonMike Muuss, Jim Bloom and Mike Schwartz. <SPAN
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian WellingtonCLASS="acronym"
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellington> maintenance was subsequently
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellingtonhandled by Mike Karels and O. Kure.</P
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian WellingtonCLASS="acronym"
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellington> versions 4.9 and 4.9.1 were released by Digital Equipment
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian WellingtonCorporation (now Compaq Computer Corporation). Paul Vixie, then
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellingtona DEC employee, became <SPAN
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian WellingtonCLASS="acronym"
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellington>'s primary caretaker. Paul was assisted
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellingtonby Phil Almquist, Robert Elz, Alan Barrett, Paul Albitz, Bryan Beecher, Andrew
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian WellingtonPartan, Andy Cherenson, Tom Limoncelli, Berthold Paffrath, Fuat
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian WellingtonBaran, Anant Kumar, Art Harkin, Win Treese, Don Lewis, Christophe
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian WellingtonWolfhugel, and others.</P
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian WellingtonCLASS="acronym"
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellington> Version 4.9.2 was sponsored by Vixie Enterprises. Paul
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian WellingtonVixie became <SPAN
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian WellingtonCLASS="acronym"
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian WellingtonCLASS="acronym"
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellington> versions from 4.9.3 onward have been developed and maintained
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellingtonby the Internet Software Consortium with support being provided
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellingtonby ISC's sponsors. As co-architects/programmers, Bob Halley and
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian WellingtonPaul Vixie released the first production-ready version of <SPAN
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian WellingtonCLASS="acronym"
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellington8 in May 1997.</P
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian WellingtonCLASS="acronym"
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellington> development work is made possible today by the sponsorship
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellingtonof several corporations, and by the tireless work efforts of numerous
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellingtonindividuals.</P
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian WellingtonNAME="historical_dns_information"
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellington>A.2. General <SPAN
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian WellingtonCLASS="acronym"
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellington> Reference Information</A
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian WellingtonNAME="ipv6addresses"
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellington>A.2.1. IPv6 addresses (AAAA)</A
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellington>IPv6 addresses are 128-bit identifiers for interfaces and
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellingtonsets of interfaces which were introduced in the <SPAN
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian WellingtonCLASS="acronym"
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellington> to facilitate
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellingtonscalable Internet routing. There are three types of addresses: <SPAN
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian WellingtonCLASS="emphasis"
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian WellingtonCLASS="emphasis"
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellingtonan identifier for a single interface; <SPAN
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian WellingtonCLASS="emphasis"
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian WellingtonCLASS="emphasis"
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellingtonan identifier for a set of interfaces; and <SPAN
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian WellingtonCLASS="emphasis"
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian WellingtonCLASS="emphasis"
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellingtonan identifier for a set of interfaces. Here we describe the global
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian WellingtonUnicast address scheme. For more information, see RFC 2374.</P
1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian Wellington>The aggregatable global Unicast address format is as follows:</P
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1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian WellingtonNAME="AEN4801"
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1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian WellingtonVALIGN="MIDDLE"
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1d92d8a2456b23842a649b6104c60a9d6ea25333Brian WellingtonVALIGN="MIDDLE"
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