Berkeley Internet Name Domain

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BIND is an implementation of the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS).

It performs two main DNS server roles:

1. Acting as an authoritative name server for domains.
2. Acting as a recursive resolver within a network.

As of 2015, it is considered the most widely used domain name server software and is the de facto standard on Unix-like operating systems.

The software was originally designed in the early 1980s at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB). The name is an acronym of Berkeley Internet Name Domain, reflecting the application's use within UCB. The software consists mostly of a DNS server component called named, a contraction of name daemon. In addition, the suite includes various administration tools and a DNS resolver interface library. The latest version of BIND is BIND 9, first released in 2000. BIND 9 is actively maintained, and new releases have come out several times a year.

Starting in 2009, the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) developed a software suite named BIND10. With release version 1.2.0, the project was renamed Bundy, and ISC no longer participates in the project.

BIND 9

• BIND 9 web site
• Gitlab - bind9

The latest version of BIND is BIND 9, first released in 2000.

Setup and operation

• (SULINUX tutorial #11) Running a DNS server > Tutorials | Linux Server Administrators Group
• Let's build our own DNS name server! (feat. BIND9)

See also

• Domain Name Server (DNS)
• InformationSecurity:CheckList:Unix - Checklist of security items for Unix-like systems.
• dnsmasq
• bind
• Unbound
• hostapd - Turns a wireless LAN card into an access point.
• CoreDNS

Favorite site

• Wikipedia (en) BIND
• Setting up an Ubuntu name server (Install Ubuntu bind9 nameserver)
• Installing BIND (BIND9) as a package on Ubuntu
• Running a DNS Server in Docker

Projects

• Github - bind-restapi - Rest API for BIND9 in python