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0N/A Although the "official" beginning of the Domain Name
0N/A System occurred in 1984 with the publication of RFC 920, the
0N/A core of the new system was described in 1983 in RFCs 882 and
0N/A 883. From 1984 to 1987, the ARPAnet (the precursor to today's
0N/A Internet) became a testbed of experimentation for developing the
955N/A operational network environment. New RFCs were written and
955N/A published in 1987 that modified the original documents to
955N/A incorporate improvements based on the working model. RFC 1034,
955N/A "Domain Names-Concepts and Facilities", and RFC 1035, "Domain
955N/A Names-Implementation and Specification" were published and
955N/A became the standards upon which all <
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2157N/A The first working domain name server, called "Jeeves", was
2157N/A written in 1983-84 by Paul Mockapetris for operation on DEC
0N/A machines located at the University of Southern California's
0N/A Sciences Institute (USC-ISI) and SRI International's Network
0N/A Center (SRI-NIC). A <
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0N/A Unix machines, the Berkeley Internet
0N/A Name Domain (<
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0N/A written soon after by a group of
0N/A graduate students at the University of California at Berkeley
0N/A a grant from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects
0N/A Versions of <
acronym class="acronym">BIND</
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0N/A 4.8.3 were maintained by the Computer
0N/A Systems Research Group (CSRG) at UC Berkeley. Douglas Terry, Mark
0N/A Painter, David Riggle and Songnian Zhou made up the initial <
acronym class="acronym">BIND</
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0N/A project team. After that, additional work on the software package
0N/A was done by Ralph Campbell. Kevin Dunlap, a Digital Equipment
0N/A employee on loan to the CSRG, worked on <
acronym class="acronym">BIND</
acronym> for 2 years, from 1985
0N/A to 1987. Many other people also contributed to <
acronym class="acronym">BIND</
acronym> development
0N/A during that time: Doug Kingston, Craig Partridge, Smoot
0N/A Mike Muuss, Jim Bloom and Mike Schwartz. <
acronym class="acronym">BIND</
acronym> maintenance was subsequently
0N/A handled by Mike Karels and �ivind Kure.
0N/A <
acronym class="acronym">BIND</
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0N/A released by Digital Equipment
0N/A Corporation (now Compaq Computer Corporation). Paul Vixie, then
0N/A a DEC employee, became <
acronym class="acronym">BIND</
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0N/A primary caretaker. He was assisted
0N/A by Phil Almquist, Robert Elz, Alan Barrett, Paul Albitz, Bryan
0N/A Partan, Andy Cherenson, Tom Limoncelli, Berthold Paffrath, Fuat
0N/A Baran, Anant Kumar, Art Harkin, Win Treese, Don Lewis, Christophe
0N/A Wolfhugel, and others.
0N/A In 1994, <
acronym class="acronym">BIND</
acronym> version 4.9.2 was sponsored by
0N/A Vixie Enterprises. Paul
0N/A Vixie became <
acronym class="acronym">BIND</
acronym>'s principal
0N/A <
acronym class="acronym">BIND</
acronym> versions from 4.9.3 onward
0N/A have been developed and maintained
0N/A by the Internet Systems Consortium and its predecessor,
0N/A the Internet Software Consortium, with support being provided
0N/A Paul Vixie released the first production-ready version of
0N/A <
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0N/A BIND version 9 was released in September 2000 and is a
0N/A major rewrite of nearly all aspects of the underlying
0N/A BIND versions 4 and 8 are officially deprecated.
0N/A No additional development is done
0N/A on BIND version 4 or BIND version 8.
0N/A <
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0N/A possible today by the sponsorship
of several corporations, and by the tireless work efforts of
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