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38: <p><a name="historical_dns_information"></a>
39: Although the "official" beginning of the Domain Name
40: System occurred in 1984 with the publication of RFC 920, the
41: core of the new system was described in 1983 in RFCs 882 and
42: 883. From 1984 to 1987, the ARPAnet (the precursor to today's
43: Internet) became a testbed of experimentation for developing the
44: new naming/addressing scheme in a rapidly expanding,
45: operational network environment. New RFCs were written and
46: published in 1987 that modified the original documents to
47: incorporate improvements based on the working model. RFC 1034,
48: "Domain Names-Concepts and Facilities", and RFC 1035, "Domain
49: Names-Implementation and Specification" were published and
50: became the standards upon which all <acronym class="acronym">DNS</acronym> implementations are
51: built.
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55: The first working domain name server, called "Jeeves", was
56: written in 1983-84 by Paul Mockapetris for operation on DEC
57: Tops-20
58: machines located at the University of Southern California's
59: Information
60: Sciences Institute (USC-ISI) and SRI International's Network
61: Information
62: Center (SRI-NIC). A <acronym class="acronym">DNS</acronym> server for
63: Unix machines, the Berkeley Internet
64: Name Domain (<acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym>) package, was
65: written soon after by a group of
66: graduate students at the University of California at Berkeley
67: under
68: a grant from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects
69: Administration
70: (DARPA).
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73: Versions of <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> through
74: 4.8.3 were maintained by the Computer
75: Systems Research Group (CSRG) at UC Berkeley. Douglas Terry, Mark
76: Painter, David Riggle and Songnian Zhou made up the initial <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym>
77: project team. After that, additional work on the software package
78: was done by Ralph Campbell. Kevin Dunlap, a Digital Equipment
79: Corporation
80: employee on loan to the CSRG, worked on <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> for 2 years, from 1985
81: to 1987. Many other people also contributed to <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> development
82: during that time: Doug Kingston, Craig Partridge, Smoot
83: Carl-Mitchell,
84: Mike Muuss, Jim Bloom and Mike Schwartz. <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> maintenance was subsequently
85: handled by Mike Karels and Øivind Kure.
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88: <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> versions 4.9 and 4.9.1 were
89: released by Digital Equipment
90: Corporation (now Compaq Computer Corporation). Paul Vixie, then
91: a DEC employee, became <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym>'s
92: primary caretaker. He was assisted
93: by Phil Almquist, Robert Elz, Alan Barrett, Paul Albitz, Bryan
94: Beecher, Andrew
95: Partan, Andy Cherenson, Tom Limoncelli, Berthold Paffrath, Fuat
96: Baran, Anant Kumar, Art Harkin, Win Treese, Don Lewis, Christophe
97: Wolfhugel, and others.
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100: In 1994, <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> version 4.9.2 was sponsored by
101: Vixie Enterprises. Paul
102: Vixie became <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym>'s principal
103: architect/programmer.
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106: <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> versions from 4.9.3 onward
107: have been developed and maintained
108: by the Internet Systems Consortium and its predecessor,
109: the Internet Software Consortium, with support being provided
110: by ISC's sponsors.
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113: As co-architects/programmers, Bob Halley and
114: Paul Vixie released the first production-ready version of
115: <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> version 8 in May 1997.
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118: BIND version 9 was released in September 2000 and is a
119: major rewrite of nearly all aspects of the underlying
120: BIND architecture.
121: </p>
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123: BIND versions 4 and 8 are officially deprecated.
124: No additional development is done
125: on BIND version 4 or BIND version 8.
126: </p>
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128: <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> development work is made
129: possible today by the sponsorship
130: of several corporations, and by the tireless work efforts of
131: numerous individuals.
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