1.. Copyright (C) Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC") 2.. 3.. SPDX-License-Identifier: MPL-2.0 4.. 5.. This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public 6.. License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this 7.. file, you can obtain one at https://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. 8.. 9.. See the COPYRIGHT file distributed with this work for additional 10.. information regarding copyright ownership. 11 12.. History: 13 14A Brief History of the DNS and BIND 15=================================== 16 17Although the Domain Name System "officially" began in 181984 with the publication of :rfc:`920`, the core of the new system was 19described in 1983 in :rfc:`882` and :rfc:`883`. From 1984 to 1987, the ARPAnet 20(the precursor to today's Internet) became a testbed of experimentation 21for developing the new naming/addressing scheme in a rapidly expanding, 22operational network environment. New RFCs were written and published in 231987 that modified the original documents to incorporate improvements 24based on the working model. :rfc:`1034`, "Domain Names-Concepts and 25Facilities," and :rfc:`1035`, "Domain Names-Implementation and 26Specification," were published and became the standards upon which all 27DNS implementations are built. 28 29The first working domain name server, called "Jeeves," was written in 301983-84 by Paul Mockapetris for operation on DEC Tops-20 machines 31located at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences 32Institute (USC-ISI) and SRI International's Network Information Center 33(SRI-NIC). A DNS server for Unix machines, the Berkeley Internet Name 34Domain (BIND) package, was written soon after by a group of graduate 35students at the University of California at Berkeley under a grant from 36the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration (DARPA). 37 38Versions of BIND through 4.8.3 were maintained by the Computer Systems 39Research Group (CSRG) at UC Berkeley. Douglas Terry, Mark Painter, David 40Riggle, and Songnian Zhou made up the initial BIND project team. After 41that, additional work on the software package was done by Ralph 42Campbell. Kevin Dunlap, a Digital Equipment Corporation employee on loan 43to the CSRG, worked on BIND for 2 years, from 1985 to 1987. Many other 44people also contributed to BIND development during that time: Doug 45Kingston, Craig Partridge, Smoot Carl-Mitchell, Mike Muuss, Jim Bloom, 46and Mike Schwartz. BIND maintenance was subsequently handled by Mike 47Karels and Øivind Kure. 48 49BIND versions 4.9 and 4.9.1 were released by Digital Equipment 50Corporation (which became Compaq Computer Corporation and eventually merged 51with Hewlett-Packard). Paul Vixie, then a DEC 52employee, became BIND's primary caretaker. He was assisted by Phil 53Almquist, Robert Elz, Alan Barrett, Paul Albitz, Bryan Beecher, Andrew 54Partan, Andy Cherenson, Tom Limoncelli, Berthold Paffrath, Fuat Baran, 55Anant Kumar, Art Harkin, Win Treese, Don Lewis, Christophe Wolfhugel, 56and others. 57 58In 1994, BIND version 4.9.2 was sponsored by Vixie Enterprises. Paul 59Vixie became BIND's principal architect/programmer. 60 61BIND versions from 4.9.3 onward have been developed and maintained by 62Internet Systems Consortium and its predecessor, the Internet 63Software Consortium, with support provided by ISC's sponsors. 64 65As co-architects/programmers, Bob Halley and Paul Vixie released the 66first production-ready version of BIND version 8 in May 1997. 67 68BIND version 9 was released in September 2000 and is a major rewrite of 69nearly all aspects of the underlying BIND architecture. 70 71BIND versions 4 and 8 are officially deprecated. No additional 72development is done on BIND version 4 or BIND version 8. 73 74BIND development work is made possible today by the sponsorship of 75corporations who purchase professional support services from ISC 76(https://www.isc.org/contact/) and/or donate to our mission, and by the 77tireless efforts of numerous individuals. 78