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Name: BIND - Internet domain name server

Version: 4.9.6 and 8.1.1

Author(s): Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>

   Releases from 4.9
      Paul Vixie
      <paul@vix.com>
      Internet Software Consortium

   Releases through 4.8.3
      Kevin J. Dunlap*
      Michael J. Karels

      Computer Systems Research Group
      Computer Science Division
      Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
      University of California
      Berkeley  CA  94720

      *  The  author  was  an  employee  of  Digital  Equipment
      Corporation's  Ultrix Engineering Advanced Development Group
      and was on loan to CSRG when this work was done. 

      -- quoted from "Name Server Operations Guide for BIND Releases from 4.9"
         by Paul Vixie included in bind4.9.3 distribution.

Ftp source: ftp.isc.org:/isc/bind/
            http://www.isc.org/isc/

Description:

    The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) implements an Internet
    name server for the UNIX operating system. BIND consists of a
    server (or ``daemon'') and a resolver library. A name server is a
    network service that enables clients to name resources or objects
    and share this information with other objects in the network.
    This in effect is a distributed data base system for objects in a
    computer network. BIND is fully integrated into BSD (4.3 and
    later releases) network programs for use in storing and retrieving
    host names and address. The system administrator can configure
    the system to use BIND as a replacement to the older host table
    lookup of information in the network hosts file /etc/hosts. The
    default configuration for BSD uses BIND. 
    
    -- quoted from "Name Server Operations Guide for BIND Releases from 4.9"
       by Paul Vixie included in 8.1.1 distribution.

    New features in BIND 8 include:

        -> DNS Dynamic Updates (RFC 2136)
        -> DNS Change Notification (RFC 1996)
        -> Completely new configuration syntax
        -> Flexible, categorized logging system
        -> IP-address-based access control for queries, zone transfers, and
           updates that may be specified on a zone-by-zone basis
        -> More efficient zone transfers
        -> Improved performance for servers with thousands of zones
        -> The server no longer forks for outbound zone transfers
        -> Many bug fixes

    -- from the BIND 8.1.1 README file

Advertised architectures:

   This package is very widely ported. Architectures include:

   Ultrix 4.5
   Digital UNIX 3.2C
   SunOS 4.1.4
   BSD -- all derivatives, all versions 
   AIX - unspecified version
   Linux
  
Prerequisites: C compiler