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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Wed May 23 06:11:33 2012

From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120523041040.GC23282@vacation.karoshi.com.>
Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 03:07:13 -0700
To: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org


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

> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 08:52:52PM -0700, Michael J Wise wrote:
>>=20
>> On May 22, 2012, at 8:35 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
>>=20
>>> father of bind?  that's news.
>>=20
>> 	=
<http://boingboing.net/2012/03/29/paul-vixies-firsthand-accoun.html>
>>=20
>> He was there, and Put The Fix In, to down the network.
>=20
> 	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



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