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1462N/A Although the "official" beginning of the Domain Name
1462N/A System occurred in 1984 with the publication of RFC 920, the
1462N/A core of the new system was described in 1983 in RFCs 882 and
1462N/A 883. From 1984 to 1987, the ARPAnet (the precursor to today's
1462N/A Internet) became a testbed of experimentation for developing the
1462N/A operational network environment. New RFCs were written and
1462N/A published in 1987 that modified the original documents to
80N/A incorporate improvements based on the working model. RFC 1034,
4793N/A "Domain Names-Concepts and Facilities", and RFC 1035, "Domain
4793N/A Names-Implementation and Specification" were published and
4793N/A became the standards upon which all <
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4793N/A The first working domain name server, called "Jeeves", was
4793N/A written in 1983-84 by Paul Mockapetris for operation on DEC
4793N/A machines located at the University of Southern California's
4793N/A Sciences Institute (USC-ISI) and SRI International's Network
4793N/A Center (SRI-NIC). A <
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4793N/A Unix machines, the Berkeley Internet
4793N/A Name Domain (<
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4793N/A written soon after by a group of
4793N/A graduate students at the University of California at Berkeley
4793N/A a grant from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects
4793N/A Versions of <
acronym class="acronym">BIND</
acronym> through
4793N/A 4.8.3 were maintained by the Computer
5680N/A Systems Research Group (CSRG) at UC Berkeley. Douglas Terry, Mark
4793N/A Painter, David Riggle and Songnian Zhou made up the initial <
acronym class="acronym">BIND</
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4793N/A project team. After that, additional work on the software package
4793N/A was done by Ralph Campbell. Kevin Dunlap, a Digital Equipment
4400N/A employee on loan to the CSRG, worked on <
acronym class="acronym">BIND</
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3817N/A to 1987. Many other people also contributed to <
acronym class="acronym">BIND</
acronym> development
3817N/A during that time: Doug Kingston, Craig Partridge, Smoot
Mike Muuss, Jim Bloom and Mike Schwartz. <
acronym class="acronym">BIND</
acronym> maintenance was subsequently
handled by Mike Karels and �ivind Kure.
<
acronym class="acronym">BIND</
acronym> versions 4.9 and 4.9.1 were
released by Digital Equipment
Corporation (now Compaq Computer Corporation). Paul Vixie, then
a DEC employee, became <
acronym class="acronym">BIND</
acronym>'s
primary caretaker. He was assisted
by Phil Almquist, Robert Elz, Alan Barrett, Paul Albitz, Bryan
Partan, Andy Cherenson, Tom Limoncelli, Berthold Paffrath, Fuat
Baran, Anant Kumar, Art Harkin, Win Treese, Don Lewis, Christophe
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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