Re: Vixie warns: DNS Changer ‘blackouts’ inevitable

[George Herbert <george.herbert () gmail com>]

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 5:42 PM,  <valdis.kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
> On Wed, 23 May 2012 13:09:09 -0700, Leo Bicknell said:
>
> >   "In 1988, while employed by DEC, he started working on the popular
> >    internet domain name server BIND, of which he was the primary author and
> >    architect, until release 8."
> >
> > ISC has spent some effort on properly documenting the history of
> > BIND, and the result of that effort is located at:
> >
> > http://www.isc.org/software/bind/history
> >
> > You'll note there are two full paragraphs and a dozen folks involved
> > before Paul had anything to do with BIND.
>
> One could make the case that the releases before Paul got there weren't
> exactly popular - how many DNS servers were in production in 1986? ;)

Please don't make me remember hosts.txt before I've had a chance to
wrap up work, go home, and get some Scotch in...


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-george william herbert
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