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6406210b71fd4a97800f32f3613eea9b6a6a12ceMark de Reeper<a name="Bv9ARM.ch10"></a>A Brief History of the <acronym class="acronym">DNS</acronym> and <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym>
6406210b71fd4a97800f32f3613eea9b6a6a12ceMark de Reeper Although the "official" beginning of the Domain Name
6406210b71fd4a97800f32f3613eea9b6a6a12ceMark de Reeper System occurred in 1984 with the publication of RFC 920, the
6406210b71fd4a97800f32f3613eea9b6a6a12ceMark de Reeper core of the new system was described in 1983 in RFCs 882 and
0595fb660c93faf1fdbaad7e1300eb342b5baf31Mark de Reeper 883. From 1984 to 1987, the ARPAnet (the precursor to today's
6406210b71fd4a97800f32f3613eea9b6a6a12ceMark de Reeper Internet) became a testbed of experimentation for developing the
6406210b71fd4a97800f32f3613eea9b6a6a12ceMark de Reeper new naming/addressing scheme in a rapidly expanding,
6406210b71fd4a97800f32f3613eea9b6a6a12ceMark de Reeper operational network environment. New RFCs were written and
6406210b71fd4a97800f32f3613eea9b6a6a12ceMark de Reeper published in 1987 that modified the original documents to
6406210b71fd4a97800f32f3613eea9b6a6a12ceMark de Reeper incorporate improvements based on the working model. RFC 1034,
6406210b71fd4a97800f32f3613eea9b6a6a12ceMark de Reeper "Domain Names-Concepts and Facilities", and RFC 1035, "Domain
6406210b71fd4a97800f32f3613eea9b6a6a12ceMark de Reeper Names-Implementation and Specification" were published and
6406210b71fd4a97800f32f3613eea9b6a6a12ceMark de Reeper became the standards upon which all <acronym class="acronym">DNS</acronym> implementations are
6406210b71fd4a97800f32f3613eea9b6a6a12ceMark de Reeper The first working domain name server, called "Jeeves", was
6406210b71fd4a97800f32f3613eea9b6a6a12ceMark de Reeper written in 1983-84 by Paul Mockapetris for operation on DEC
6406210b71fd4a97800f32f3613eea9b6a6a12ceMark de Reeper machines located at the University of Southern California's
6406210b71fd4a97800f32f3613eea9b6a6a12ceMark de Reeper Sciences Institute (USC-ISI) and SRI International's Network
6406210b71fd4a97800f32f3613eea9b6a6a12ceMark de Reeper Center (SRI-NIC). A <acronym class="acronym">DNS</acronym> server for
6406210b71fd4a97800f32f3613eea9b6a6a12ceMark de Reeper Unix machines, the Berkeley Internet
6406210b71fd4a97800f32f3613eea9b6a6a12ceMark de Reeper Name Domain (<acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym>) package, was
6406210b71fd4a97800f32f3613eea9b6a6a12ceMark de Reeper written soon after by a group of
6406210b71fd4a97800f32f3613eea9b6a6a12ceMark de Reeper graduate students at the University of California at Berkeley
6406210b71fd4a97800f32f3613eea9b6a6a12ceMark de Reeper a grant from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects
6406210b71fd4a97800f32f3613eea9b6a6a12ceMark de Reeper Administration
6406210b71fd4a97800f32f3613eea9b6a6a12ceMark de Reeper Versions of <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> through
6406210b71fd4a97800f32f3613eea9b6a6a12ceMark de Reeper 4.8.3 were maintained by the Computer
6406210b71fd4a97800f32f3613eea9b6a6a12ceMark de Reeper Systems Research Group (CSRG) at UC Berkeley. Douglas Terry, Mark
6406210b71fd4a97800f32f3613eea9b6a6a12ceMark de Reeper Painter, David Riggle and Songnian Zhou made up the initial <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym>
6406210b71fd4a97800f32f3613eea9b6a6a12ceMark de Reeper project team. After that, additional work on the software package
6406210b71fd4a97800f32f3613eea9b6a6a12ceMark de Reeper was done by Ralph Campbell. Kevin Dunlap, a Digital Equipment
6406210b71fd4a97800f32f3613eea9b6a6a12ceMark de Reeper employee on loan to the CSRG, worked on <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> for 2 years, from 1985
6406210b71fd4a97800f32f3613eea9b6a6a12ceMark de Reeper to 1987. Many other people also contributed to <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> development
6406210b71fd4a97800f32f3613eea9b6a6a12ceMark de Reeper during that time: Doug Kingston, Craig Partridge, Smoot
6406210b71fd4a97800f32f3613eea9b6a6a12ceMark de Reeper Carl-Mitchell,
0595fb660c93faf1fdbaad7e1300eb342b5baf31Mark de Reeper Mike Muuss, Jim Bloom and Mike Schwartz. <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> maintenance was subsequently
0595fb660c93faf1fdbaad7e1300eb342b5baf31Mark de Reeper handled by Mike Karels and �ivind Kure.
6406210b71fd4a97800f32f3613eea9b6a6a12ceMark de Reeper <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> versions 4.9 and 4.9.1 were
6406210b71fd4a97800f32f3613eea9b6a6a12ceMark de Reeper released by Digital Equipment
6406210b71fd4a97800f32f3613eea9b6a6a12ceMark de Reeper Corporation (now Compaq Computer Corporation). Paul Vixie, then
6406210b71fd4a97800f32f3613eea9b6a6a12ceMark de Reeper a DEC employee, became <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym>'s
6406210b71fd4a97800f32f3613eea9b6a6a12ceMark de Reeper primary caretaker. He was assisted
6406210b71fd4a97800f32f3613eea9b6a6a12ceMark de Reeper by Phil Almquist, Robert Elz, Alan Barrett, Paul Albitz, Bryan
0595fb660c93faf1fdbaad7e1300eb342b5baf31Mark de Reeper Beecher, Andrew
6406210b71fd4a97800f32f3613eea9b6a6a12ceMark de Reeper Partan, Andy Cherenson, Tom Limoncelli, Berthold Paffrath, Fuat
6406210b71fd4a97800f32f3613eea9b6a6a12ceMark de Reeper Baran, Anant Kumar, Art Harkin, Win Treese, Don Lewis, Christophe
6406210b71fd4a97800f32f3613eea9b6a6a12ceMark de Reeper Wolfhugel, and others.
6406210b71fd4a97800f32f3613eea9b6a6a12ceMark de Reeper In 1994, <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> version 4.9.2 was sponsored by
6406210b71fd4a97800f32f3613eea9b6a6a12ceMark de Reeper Vixie Enterprises. Paul
6406210b71fd4a97800f32f3613eea9b6a6a12ceMark de Reeper Vixie became <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym>'s principal
0595fb660c93faf1fdbaad7e1300eb342b5baf31Mark de Reeper <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> versions from 4.9.3 onward
6406210b71fd4a97800f32f3613eea9b6a6a12ceMark de Reeper have been developed and maintained
6406210b71fd4a97800f32f3613eea9b6a6a12ceMark de Reeper by the Internet Systems Consortium and its predecessor,
0595fb660c93faf1fdbaad7e1300eb342b5baf31Mark de Reeper the Internet Software Consortium, with support being provided
6406210b71fd4a97800f32f3613eea9b6a6a12ceMark de Reeper by ISC's sponsors.