BIND Name

[kevind at sea.checkpoint.com]

The Orginal creators of BIND called it:
  "Berkeley Internet Name Domain"

The first published paper about BIND is titled "The Berkeley Internet Name 
Domain (BIND) Server"
by  Douglas Terry, Mark Painter, David Riggle and Songnian Zhou,
Proceedings of USENIX Summer Conference 1984, Salt Lake City, Utah. June 
1984, pages 23-31

-Kevin
(BIND & DNS Historian)


At 07:07 AM 4/19/2001 -0700, Nate Duehr wrote:

>Weird.
>
>I just corrected someone for calling BIND the "Berkeley Internet Name
>Domain" instead of what I knew it to be, "Berkeley Internet Name
>Daemon".  He pointed me back to the isc.org webpages, which definitely
>say "Domain".
>
>What's up with that?  Is that just a typo on the web pages, or what?
>Berkeley Internet Name Domain makes no sense.
>
>--
>Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com>
>
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