Pro DNS and BIND

Chapter 6. Installing BIND

BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) is an Open Source implementation of the Domain Name System protocols originally developed by the University of California, Berkeley. BIND is generally viewed as the reference implementation of the Internet's DNS, the standard against which all other implementations are compared. Due to its stability and high quality, BIND is the most widely deployed DNS software, servicing most of the root and gTLD name servers as well as innumerable ISPs, commercial organizations, and, because of its incomparable cost advantage (freely available under the BSD license), even very small sites and individual PCs. In 1994, the responsibility for BIND development moved from Berkeley to Internet Systems ...