BIND
our plans for BIND.

OUR OTHER PROJECTS:

DHCP
an implementation of the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol.

INN
the InterNetNews package.

BIND is the Berkeley Internet Name Domain, originally written at U. C. Berkeley under a grant from U. S. Government. Versions through 4.8.3 were maintained by the Computer Systems Research Group of U. C. Berkeley. Versions 4.9 and 4.9.1 were released by Digital Equipment Corporation. Version 4.9.2 was sponsored by Vixie Enterprises. Versions from 4.9.3 onward have been sponsored by the Internet Software Consortium.

ISC and RSA Announce Secure DNS

In May of 1997, the first production-ready version of BIND-8 was released. We have deprecated BIND-4 other than for security related patches. No new features or portability changes will be added to BIND-4. You should be using BIND-8.

OUR GOODIES:

• The latest release intended for vendors or advanced users (includes a contributed Win/NT port in addition to the standard UNIX version).
• The latest kit intended for semipublic testing.
• A fairly recent BOG (BIND Operations Guide), available in both PostScript or Lineprinter formats. Thanks to Graeme Cox there is also a somewhat recent HTML version available.
• BIND 8.1 Documentation.
• We sign some of our software distributions using PGP.
• A discussion of BIND and load balancing.

Support Contracts for ISC BIND Now Available

OTHER GOODIES:

• Unofficial comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains FAQ.
• Andras Salamon's DNS Resources Directory
• Scott Newton's TCP/IP Tutorial has a DNS Section.
• Roland Schemers wrote a load balancing DNS forwarder in Perl-5.
• Russell Nelson has converted RFC 1035 to HTML, and the result is pretty nice.
• Craig Richmond wrote and Ronny H. Kavli has edited a BIND FAQ.
• SoftAware has put up some information about DNS and WWW.
• Glenn Stevens has written an extensive DNS guide.
• Paul Balyoz wrote and maintains a bunch of DNS Tools.
• Joe Rhett has been working on documentation for the contributed, unsupported, unofficial Win/NT port of BIND.
• Trusted Information Systems implemented a prototype of Secure DNS, which you can use to generate KEY records and sign DNS zone files.

VENDORWARE:

• Contact me if you have a product derived from ISC BIND that you would like to see listed here.
• BindNT, from Software.com.
• QIP from Quadritek.
• Meta IP/DNS from MetaInfo.
• NetID from Bay Networks.

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