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Berkeley Internet Name Domain
Last modified: Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Abbreviated as BIND, Berkeley Internet Name Domain is the most common implementation of the DNS protocol on the Internet. It's freely available under the BSD License. BIND DNS servers are believed to be providing about 80 percent of all DNS services. BIND was developed by the University of California at Berkeley. The most current release is BIND 9.4.2, and from Version 9 onwards it supports DNS SEC, TSIG, IPv6 and other DNS protocol enhancements.
BIND 9.4.2 BIND version 9 is a major rewrite of nearly all aspects of the underlying BIND architecture.
BIND Manual Pages, BIND 9 User Guide The purpose of this document is to explain the installation and upkeep of the BIND software package, and we begin by reviewing the fundamentals of the Domain Name System (DNS) as they relate to BIND.
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