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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-07 15:59:48 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-07 15:59:48 +0000 |
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diff --git a/doc/arm/history.rst b/doc/arm/history.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5049982 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/arm/history.rst @@ -0,0 +1,77 @@ +.. Copyright (C) Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC") +.. +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: MPL-2.0 +.. +.. This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public +.. License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this +.. file, you can obtain one at https://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. +.. +.. See the COPYRIGHT file distributed with this work for additional +.. information regarding copyright ownership. + +.. History: + +A Brief History of the DNS and BIND +=================================== + +Although the Domain Name System "officially" began in +1984 with the publication of :rfc:`920`, the core of the new system was +described in 1983 in :rfc:`882` and :rfc:`883`. From 1984 to 1987, the ARPAnet +(the precursor to today's Internet) became a testbed of experimentation +for developing the new naming/addressing scheme in a rapidly expanding, +operational network environment. New RFCs were written and published in +1987 that modified the original documents to incorporate improvements +based on the working model. :rfc:`1034`, "Domain Names-Concepts and +Facilities," and :rfc:`1035`, "Domain Names-Implementation and +Specification," were published and became the standards upon which all +DNS implementations are built. + +The first working domain name server, called "Jeeves," was written in +1983-84 by Paul Mockapetris for operation on DEC Tops-20 machines +located at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences +Institute (USC-ISI) and SRI International's Network Information Center +(SRI-NIC). A DNS server for Unix machines, the Berkeley Internet Name +Domain (BIND) package, was written soon after by a group of graduate +students at the University of California at Berkeley under a grant from +the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration (DARPA). + +Versions of BIND through 4.8.3 were maintained by the Computer Systems +Research Group (CSRG) at UC Berkeley. Douglas Terry, Mark Painter, David +Riggle, and Songnian Zhou made up the initial BIND project team. After +that, additional work on the software package was done by Ralph +Campbell. Kevin Dunlap, a Digital Equipment Corporation employee on loan +to the CSRG, worked on BIND for 2 years, from 1985 to 1987. Many other +people also contributed to BIND development during that time: Doug +Kingston, Craig Partridge, Smoot Carl-Mitchell, Mike Muuss, Jim Bloom, +and Mike Schwartz. BIND maintenance was subsequently handled by Mike +Karels and Øivind Kure. + +BIND versions 4.9 and 4.9.1 were released by Digital Equipment +Corporation (which became Compaq Computer Corporation and eventually merged +with Hewlett-Packard). Paul Vixie, then a DEC +employee, became BIND's primary caretaker. He was assisted by 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, Christophe Wolfhugel, +and others. + +In 1994, BIND version 4.9.2 was sponsored by Vixie Enterprises. Paul +Vixie became BIND's principal architect/programmer. + +BIND versions from 4.9.3 onward have been developed and maintained by +Internet Systems Consortium and its predecessor, the Internet +Software Consortium, with support provided by ISC's sponsors. + +As co-architects/programmers, Bob Halley and Paul Vixie released the +first production-ready version of BIND version 8 in May 1997. + +BIND version 9 was released in September 2000 and is a major rewrite of +nearly all aspects of the underlying BIND architecture. + +BIND versions 4 and 8 are officially deprecated. No additional +development is done on BIND version 4 or BIND version 8. + +BIND development work is made possible today by the sponsorship of +corporations who purchase professional support services from ISC +(https://www.isc.org/contact/) and/or donate to our mission, and by the +tireless efforts of numerous individuals. |