djbdns: An alternative to BIND

william(at)elan.net william at elan.net
Mon Apr 11 19:07:27 UTC 2005



On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Kevin Oberman wrote:

>> Well, Paul Vixie wrote bind and he started ISC later to provide more
>> organization to his work and supporting it further, so I really dont
>> see a problem with consdering BIND to be ISC product even if original
>> acronym was more general (though I doubt he could get it trademarked
>> because of all that)..
>
> William,
>
> Paul Vixie did NOT write the original BIND. The first BIND version
> (4.3?) was written by the CSRG at UC Berkeley by Kevin Dunlap who was on
> loan to CSRG by Digital (who also employed Paul at that time).

My apologies. I did not know this detail. I knew about BIND being written
by somebody from Digital when working at Berkeley but always assumed it
was Paul Vixie back then as well.

-- 
William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william at elan.net



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