Berkeley Internet Name Domain
BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) Server is the standard and widely used Domain Name Service (DNS) Protocol Application developed by the University of California, Berkeley which provides an open and freely redistributable reference implementation of the major components of the Domain Name System. It provides approximately 80% of all DNS services and it is free and available under ISC License, a BSD style license.[1]
History
Graduate students from the University of California at Berkeley started the BIND Project under a grant from the the US Defense Advance Research Project Administration (DARPA). Douglas Terry, Mark Painter, David Riggle and Songnian Zhou collaborated in writing the first BIND. Maintenance of version of BIND through 4.8.3 were undertaken by Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at UC Berkeley. Between 1985-1987, many other individuals contributed in developing the BIND which include Ralph Campbell, Kevin Dunlap Doug Kingston, Craig Partridge, Smoot Carl-Mitchell, Mike Muuss, Jim Bloom and Mike Schwartz. The maintenance of BIND was eventually designated to Mike Karels and O. Kure.[2]
Hewlett Packard Company formerly known as Digital Equipment Corporation released BIND Versions 4.9 and 4.9.1 and Paul Vixie was delegated as the primary caretaker with assistance from Phil Almquist, Robert Elz, Alan Barrett, Paul Albitz, Bryan Beecher, Andrew Partan, Andy Cherenson, Tom Limoncelli, Berthold Paffrath, Fuat Baran, Anant Kumar, Art Harkin, Win Treese, Don Lewis and Christophe Wolfhugel.
Vixie Enterprises sponsored BIND Version 4.9.2 and Paul Vixie became the principal architect/programmer of BIND. The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) first sponsored version 4.9.3 and eventually continued the sponsorship for the development and maintenance of BIND versions.
On May 1997, Co-architect/programmers Bob Halley and Paul Vixie released BIND version 8, the first production-ready version of the BIND Project.
The major aspect of the BIND architecture was re-written.Different companies such as Sun Microsystems, Inc., Hewlett Packard, Compaq Computer Corporation, IBM, Process Software Corporation, Silicon Graphics, Inc., Network Associates, Inc., U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency, USENIX Association, Stichting NLNet - NLNet Foundation and Nominum, Inc. collaborated in underwriting BIND version 9 which was released on September 2000.
At present, ISC only supports BIND version 9 which superseded the BIND versions 4 and 8.