Re: Vixie warns: DNS Changer ‘blackouts’ inevitable

Wed May 23 10:07:13 UTC 2012

On May 22, 2012, at 9:10 PM, bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com wrote:

> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 08:52:52PM -0700, Michael J Wise wrote:
>> 
>> On May 22, 2012, at 8:35 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
>> 
>>> father of bind?  that's news.
>> 
>> 	<http://boingboing.net/2012/03/29/paul-vixies-firsthand-accoun.html>
>> 
>> He was there, and Put The Fix In, to down the network.
> 
> 	Certainly news to Phil Almquist and the entire BIND development team
> 	at UCB.   Paul was at DECWRL and cut his teeth on pre-existing code.

Indeed, even the ISC history of the BIND project here:

http://www.isc.org/software/bind/history

shows that Paul's involvement began somewhere in the 4.9 timeframe.

One could, however, argue that he is the father of modern BIND implementations.

Owen