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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Herbert)
Wed May 23 21:27:35 2012
In-Reply-To: <33756.1337820138@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 18:27:02 -0700
From: George Herbert <george.herbert@gmail.com>
To: valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu, NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 5:42 PM, <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, 23 May 2012 13:09:09 -0700, Leo Bicknell said:
>
>> =A0 "In 1988, while employed by DEC, he started working on the popular
>> =A0 =A0internet domain name server BIND, of which he was the primary aut=
hor and
>> =A0 =A0architect, until release 8."
>>
>> ISC has spent some effort on properly documenting the history of
>> BIND, and the result of that effort is located at:
>>
>> http://www.isc.org/software/bind/history
>>
>> You'll note there are two full paragraphs and a dozen folks involved
>> before Paul had anything to do with BIND.
>
> One could make the case that the releases before Paul got there weren't
> exactly popular - how many DNS servers were in production in 1986? ;)
Please don't make me remember hosts.txt before I've had a chance to
wrap up work, go home, and get some Scotch in...
--=20
-george william herbert
george.herbert@gmail.com
