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a1318a82916028f363b3c5b52e7fd7256b632497Trond Norbye<a name="Bv9ARM.ch10"></a>Appendix�B.�A Brief History of the <acronym class="acronym">DNS</acronym> and <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym>
2ba599c0d79caf59996d8b54a0490bb968442134Knut Anders Hatlen Although the "official" beginning of the Domain Name
a1318a82916028f363b3c5b52e7fd7256b632497Trond Norbye System occurred in 1984 with the publication of RFC 920, the
ca37bb3c4127b35d333203398bd983ee730d9da5Jan S Berg core of the new system was described in 1983 in RFCs 882 and
ab4ab2edaac480f68b476dc19e015c54cd4f1978Lubos Kosco 883. From 1984 to 1987, the ARPAnet (the precursor to today's
a458f50391086e92efb1275d8848ff3b83237abeKnut Anders Hatlen Internet) became a testbed of experimentation for developing the
ca37bb3c4127b35d333203398bd983ee730d9da5Jan S Berg new naming/addressing scheme in a rapidly expanding,
a1318a82916028f363b3c5b52e7fd7256b632497Trond Norbye operational network environment. New RFCs were written and
a1318a82916028f363b3c5b52e7fd7256b632497Trond Norbye published in 1987 that modified the original documents to
a1318a82916028f363b3c5b52e7fd7256b632497Trond Norbye incorporate improvements based on the working model. RFC 1034,
ab4ab2edaac480f68b476dc19e015c54cd4f1978Lubos Kosco "Domain Names-Concepts and Facilities", and RFC 1035, "Domain
ab4ab2edaac480f68b476dc19e015c54cd4f1978Lubos Kosco Names-Implementation and Specification" were published and
301b95653d1ea543522ddd6be61572b2093b8fa3Knut Anders Hatlen became the standards upon which all <acronym class="acronym">DNS</acronym> implementations are
a1318a82916028f363b3c5b52e7fd7256b632497Trond Norbye The first working domain name server, called "Jeeves", was
4bb936310d8f131aa850821e9254ac14242c7f95Knut Anders Hatlen written in 1983-84 by Paul Mockapetris for operation on DEC
a1318a82916028f363b3c5b52e7fd7256b632497Trond Norbye machines located at the University of Southern California's
a1318a82916028f363b3c5b52e7fd7256b632497Trond Norbye Sciences Institute (USC-ISI) and SRI International's Network
a1318a82916028f363b3c5b52e7fd7256b632497Trond Norbye Center (SRI-NIC). A <acronym class="acronym">DNS</acronym> server for
a1318a82916028f363b3c5b52e7fd7256b632497Trond Norbye Unix machines, the Berkeley Internet
a1318a82916028f363b3c5b52e7fd7256b632497Trond Norbye Name Domain (<acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym>) package, was
a1318a82916028f363b3c5b52e7fd7256b632497Trond Norbye written soon after by a group of
a1318a82916028f363b3c5b52e7fd7256b632497Trond Norbye graduate students at the University of California at Berkeley
a1318a82916028f363b3c5b52e7fd7256b632497Trond Norbye a grant from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects
87396bac3204b6788c817e19222626eefde8f3f0Knut Anders Hatlen Administration
a1318a82916028f363b3c5b52e7fd7256b632497Trond Norbye Versions of <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> through
a1318a82916028f363b3c5b52e7fd7256b632497Trond Norbye 4.8.3 were maintained by the Computer
a1318a82916028f363b3c5b52e7fd7256b632497Trond Norbye Systems Research Group (CSRG) at UC Berkeley. Douglas Terry, Mark
a1318a82916028f363b3c5b52e7fd7256b632497Trond Norbye Painter, David Riggle and Songnian Zhou made up the initial <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym>
a1318a82916028f363b3c5b52e7fd7256b632497Trond Norbye project team. After that, additional work on the software package
a1318a82916028f363b3c5b52e7fd7256b632497Trond Norbye was done by Ralph Campbell. Kevin Dunlap, a Digital Equipment
a1318a82916028f363b3c5b52e7fd7256b632497Trond Norbye employee on loan to the CSRG, worked on <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> for 2 years, from 1985
a1318a82916028f363b3c5b52e7fd7256b632497Trond Norbye to 1987. Many other people also contributed to <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> development
a1318a82916028f363b3c5b52e7fd7256b632497Trond Norbye during that time: Doug Kingston, Craig Partridge, Smoot
a1318a82916028f363b3c5b52e7fd7256b632497Trond Norbye Carl-Mitchell,
a1318a82916028f363b3c5b52e7fd7256b632497Trond Norbye Mike Muuss, Jim Bloom and Mike Schwartz. <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> maintenance was subsequently
8d5c49b3d8edaa0069e4f802cf8bd70af9994c35Knut Anders Hatlen handled by Mike Karels and �ivind Kure.
25fddb6fbc2130e3847315ff2b0b6819ff3feccaLubos Kosco <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> versions 4.9 and 4.9.1 were
25fddb6fbc2130e3847315ff2b0b6819ff3feccaLubos Kosco released by Digital Equipment
a1318a82916028f363b3c5b52e7fd7256b632497Trond Norbye Corporation (now Compaq Computer Corporation). Paul Vixie, then
a1318a82916028f363b3c5b52e7fd7256b632497Trond Norbye a DEC employee, became <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym>'s
a1318a82916028f363b3c5b52e7fd7256b632497Trond Norbye primary caretaker. He was assisted
a1318a82916028f363b3c5b52e7fd7256b632497Trond Norbye by Phil Almquist, Robert Elz, Alan Barrett, Paul Albitz, Bryan