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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 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.



Berkeley Internet Name Daemon


It'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/dns-adoption/


He co-founded ISC, and was in charge of BIND 8 IIRC.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Vixie

See also Vixie cron.




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