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From 1984 to 1987, the ARPAnet (the precursor to today's 58 Internet) became a testbed of experimentation for developing the 59 new naming/addressing scheme in a rapidly expanding, 60 operational network environment. New RFCs were written and 61 published in 1987 that modified the original documents to 62 incorporate improvements based on the working model. RFC 1034, 63 "Domain Names-Concepts and Facilities", and RFC 1035, "Domain 64 Names-Implementation and Specification" were published and 65 became the standards upon which all <acronym class="acronym">DNS</acronym> implementations are 66 built. 67 </p> 68<p> 69 The first working domain name server, called "Jeeves", was 70 written in 1983-84 by Paul Mockapetris for operation on DEC 71 Tops-20 72 machines located at the University of Southern California's 73 Information 74 Sciences Institute (USC-ISI) and SRI International's Network 75 Information 76 Center (SRI-NIC). A <acronym class="acronym">DNS</acronym> server for 77 Unix machines, the Berkeley Internet 78 Name Domain (<acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym>) package, was 79 written soon after by a group of 80 graduate students at the University of California at Berkeley 81 under 82 a grant from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects 83 Administration 84 (DARPA). 85 </p> 86<p> 87 Versions of <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> through 88 4.8.3 were maintained by the Computer 89 Systems Research Group (CSRG) at UC Berkeley. Douglas Terry, Mark 90 Painter, David Riggle and Songnian Zhou made up the initial <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> 91 project team. After that, additional work on the software package 92 was done by Ralph Campbell. Kevin Dunlap, a Digital Equipment 93 Corporation 94 employee on loan to the CSRG, worked on <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> for 2 years, from 1985 95 to 1987. Many other people also contributed to <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> development 96 during that time: Doug Kingston, Craig Partridge, Smoot 97 Carl-Mitchell, 98 Mike Muuss, Jim Bloom and Mike Schwartz. <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> maintenance was subsequently 99 handled by Mike Karels and �ivind Kure. 100 </p> 101<p> 102 <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> versions 4.9 and 4.9.1 were 103 released by Digital Equipment 104 Corporation (now Compaq Computer Corporation). Paul Vixie, then 105 a DEC employee, became <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym>'s 106 primary caretaker. He was assisted 107 by Phil Almquist, Robert Elz, Alan Barrett, Paul Albitz, Bryan 108 Beecher, Andrew 109 Partan, Andy Cherenson, Tom Limoncelli, Berthold Paffrath, Fuat 110 Baran, Anant Kumar, Art Harkin, Win Treese, Don Lewis, Christophe 111 Wolfhugel, and others. 112 </p> 113<p> 114 In 1994, <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> version 4.9.2 was sponsored by 115 Vixie Enterprises. Paul 116 Vixie became <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym>'s principal 117 architect/programmer. 118 </p> 119<p> 120 <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> versions from 4.9.3 onward 121 have been developed and maintained 122 by the Internet Systems Consortium and its predecessor, 123 the Internet Software Consortium, with support being provided 124 by ISC's sponsors. 125 </p> 126<p> 127 As co-architects/programmers, Bob Halley and 128 Paul Vixie released the first production-ready version of 129 <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> version 8 in May 1997. 130 </p> 131<p> 132 BIND version 9 was released in September 2000 and is a 133 major rewrite of nearly all aspects of the underlying 134 BIND architecture. 135 </p> 136<p> 137 BIND versions 4 and 8 are officially deprecated. 138 No additional development is done 139 on BIND version 4 or BIND version 8. 140 </p> 141<p> 142 <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> development work is made 143 possible today by the sponsorship 144 of several corporations, and by the tireless work efforts of 145 numerous individuals. 146 </p> 147</div> 148</div> 149<div class="navfooter"> 150<hr> 151<table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"> 152<tr> 153<td width="40%" align="left"> 154<a accesskey="p" href="Bv9ARM.ch09.html">Prev</a>�</td> 155<td width="20%" align="center">�</td> 156<td width="40%" align="right">�<a accesskey="n" href="Bv9ARM.ch11.html">Next</a> 157</td> 158</tr> 159<tr> 160<td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Appendix�A.�Release Notes�</td> 161<td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="Bv9ARM.html">Home</a></td> 162<td width="40%" align="right" valign="top">�Appendix�C.�General <acronym class="acronym">DNS</acronym> Reference Information</td> 163</tr> 164</table> 165</div> 166<p style="text-align: center;">BIND 9.10.2-P4</p> 167</body> 168</html> 169