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<a name="Bv9ARM.ch10"></a>A Brief History of the <acronym class="acronym">DNS</acronym> and <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym>
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<p><a name="historical_dns_information"></a>
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Although the "official" beginning of the Domain Name
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System occurred in 1984 with the publication of RFC 920, the
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core of the new system was described in 1983 in RFCs 882 and
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883. From 1984 to 1987, the ARPAnet (the precursor to today's
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Internet) became a testbed of experimentation for developing the
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new naming/addressing scheme in a rapidly expanding,
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operational network environment. New RFCs were written and
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published in 1987 that modified the original documents to
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incorporate improvements based on the working model. RFC 1034,
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"Domain Names-Concepts and Facilities", and RFC 1035, "Domain
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Names-Implementation and Specification" were published and
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became the standards upon which all <acronym class="acronym">DNS</acronym> implementations are
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built.
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<p>
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The first working domain name server, called "Jeeves", was
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written in 1983-84 by Paul Mockapetris for operation on DEC
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Tops-20
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machines located at the University of Southern California's
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Information
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Sciences Institute (USC-ISI) and SRI International's Network
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Information
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Center (SRI-NIC). A <acronym class="acronym">DNS</acronym> server for
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Unix machines, the Berkeley Internet
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Name Domain (<acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym>) package, was
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written soon after by a group of
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graduate students at the University of California at Berkeley
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under
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a grant from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects
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Administration
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(DARPA).
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<p>
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Versions of <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> through
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4.8.3 were maintained by the Computer
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Systems Research Group (CSRG) at UC Berkeley. Douglas Terry, Mark
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Painter, David Riggle and Songnian Zhou made up the initial <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym>
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project team. After that, additional work on the software package
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was done by Ralph Campbell. Kevin Dunlap, a Digital Equipment
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Corporation
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employee on loan to the CSRG, worked on <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> for 2 years, from 1985
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to 1987. Many other people also contributed to <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> development
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during that time: Doug Kingston, Craig Partridge, Smoot
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Carl-Mitchell,
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Mike Muuss, Jim Bloom and Mike Schwartz. <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> maintenance was subsequently
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handled by Mike Karels and Øivind Kure.
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</p>
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<p>
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<acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> versions 4.9 and 4.9.1 were
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released by Digital Equipment
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Corporation (now Compaq Computer Corporation). Paul Vixie, then
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a DEC employee, became <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym>'s
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primary caretaker. He was assisted
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by Phil Almquist, Robert Elz, Alan Barrett, Paul Albitz, Bryan
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Beecher, Andrew
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Partan, Andy Cherenson, Tom Limoncelli, Berthold Paffrath, Fuat
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Baran, Anant Kumar, Art Harkin, Win Treese, Don Lewis, Christophe
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Wolfhugel, and others.
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<p>
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In 1994, <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> version 4.9.2 was sponsored by
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Vixie Enterprises. Paul
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Vixie became <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym>'s principal
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architect/programmer.
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</p>
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<p>
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<acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> versions from 4.9.3 onward
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have been developed and maintained
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by the Internet Systems Consortium and its predecessor,
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the Internet Software Consortium, with support being provided
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by ISC's sponsors.
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<p>
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As co-architects/programmers, Bob Halley and
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Paul Vixie released the first production-ready version of
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<acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> version 8 in May 1997.
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</p>
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<p>
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BIND version 9 was released in September 2000 and is a
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major rewrite of nearly all aspects of the underlying
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BIND architecture.
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</p>
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<p>
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BIND versions 4 and 8 are officially deprecated.
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No additional development is done
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on BIND version 4 or BIND version 8.
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<p>
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<acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> development work is made
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possible today by the sponsorship
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of several corporations, and by the tireless work efforts of
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numerous individuals.
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