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6238N/A Although the "official" beginning of the Domain Name
6238N/A System occurred in 1984 with the publication of RFC 920, the
6238N/A core of the new system was described in 1983 in RFCs 882 and
6238N/A 883. From 1984 to 1987, the ARPAnet (the precursor to today's
6238N/A Internet) became a testbed of experimentation for developing the
6238N/A operational network environment. New RFCs were written and
6238N/A published in 1987 that modified the original documents to
6238N/A incorporate improvements based on the working model. RFC 1034,
6238N/A "Domain Names-Concepts and Facilities", and RFC 1035, "Domain
6238N/A Names-Implementation and Specification" were published and
6238N/A became the standards upon which all <
acronym class="acronym">DNS</
acronym> implementations are
6238N/A The first working domain name server, called "Jeeves", was
6238N/A written in 1983-84 by Paul Mockapetris for operation on DEC
6238N/A machines located at the University of Southern California's
6238N/A Sciences Institute (USC-ISI) and SRI International's Network
6238N/A Center (SRI-NIC). A <
acronym class="acronym">DNS</
acronym> server for
6238N/A Unix machines, the Berkeley Internet
6238N/A Name Domain (<
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6238N/A written soon after by a group of
6238N/A graduate students at the University of California at Berkeley
6238N/A a grant from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects
6238N/A Versions of <
acronym class="acronym">BIND</
acronym> through
6238N/A 4.8.3 were maintained by the Computer
6238N/A Systems Research Group (CSRG) at UC Berkeley. Douglas Terry, Mark
6238N/A Painter, David Riggle and Songnian Zhou made up the initial <
acronym class="acronym">BIND</
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6238N/A project team. After that, additional work on the software package
6238N/A was done by Ralph Campbell. Kevin Dunlap, a Digital Equipment
6238N/A employee on loan to the CSRG, worked on <
acronym class="acronym">BIND</
acronym> for 2 years, from 1985
6238N/A to 1987. Many other people also contributed to <
acronym class="acronym">BIND</
acronym> development
6238N/A during that time: Doug Kingston, Craig Partridge, Smoot
6238N/A Mike Muuss, Jim Bloom and Mike Schwartz. <
acronym class="acronym">BIND</
acronym> maintenance was subsequently
6238N/A handled by Mike Karels and �ivind Kure.
6238N/A <
acronym class="acronym">BIND</
acronym> versions 4.9 and 4.9.1 were
6238N/A released by Digital Equipment
6238N/A Corporation (now Compaq Computer Corporation). Paul Vixie, then
6238N/A a DEC employee, became <
acronym class="acronym">BIND</
acronym>'s
6238N/A primary caretaker. He was assisted
6238N/A by Phil Almquist, Robert Elz, Alan Barrett, Paul Albitz, Bryan
6238N/A Partan, Andy Cherenson, Tom Limoncelli, Berthold Paffrath, Fuat
6238N/A Baran, Anant Kumar, Art Harkin, Win Treese, Don Lewis, Christophe
6238N/A In 1994, <
acronym class="acronym">BIND</
acronym> version 4.9.2 was sponsored by
Vixie became <
acronym class="acronym">BIND</
acronym>'s principal
<
acronym class="acronym">BIND</
acronym> versions from 4.9.3 onward
have been developed and maintained
by the Internet Systems Consortium and its predecessor,
the Internet Software Consortium, with support being provided
Paul Vixie released the first production-ready version of
<
acronym class="acronym">BIND</
acronym> version 8 in May 1997.
BIND version 9 was released in September 2000 and is a
major rewrite of nearly all aspects of the underlying
BIND versions 4 and 8 are officially deprecated.
No additional development is done
on BIND version 4 or BIND version 8.
<
acronym class="acronym">BIND</
acronym> development work is made
possible today by the sponsorship
of several corporations, and by the tireless work efforts of
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