[79584] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: djbdns: An alternative to BIND
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (william(at)elan.net)
Mon Apr 11 15:08:07 2005
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 12:07:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: "william(at)elan.net" <william@elan.net>
To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.org
In-Reply-To: <20050411184146.DC0B75D08@ptavv.es.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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@elan.net
