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Paul did not invent/created BIND, in fact BIND was created 8 years before he took over its maintenance. BIND was created in Berkeley by grad students (probably
by takeda 7y ago
Paul did not invent/created BIND, in fact BIND was created 8 years before he took over its maintenance.
BIND was created in Berkeley by grad students (probably that's why originally was so buggy) and the name stands for Berkeley Internet Name Domain. Paul of course made major contributions to DNS and of course BIND.
- commandersaki 7y agoHis biggest contribution is getting the highest score for CVEs.
- cameldrv 7y agoBerkeley Internet Name Daemon
- EvanAnderson 7y agoIt's actually "Domain", not "Daemon". There's a couple of good episodes of "The Network Collective" podcast that discuss the early history of DNS and BIND: - https://thenetworkcollective.com/2018/01/hon-dns-origins/ https://thenetworkcollective.com/2018/01/hon-dns-origins/ - https://thenetworkcollective.com/2018/01/dns-adoption/ https://thenetworkcollective.com/2018/01/dns-adoption/
- throw0101a 7y agoHe co-founded ISC, and was in charge of BIND 8 IIRC. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Vixie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Vixie See also Vixie cron.