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Question 2.3.
What is BIND ?
Date: Tue Sep 10 23:15:58 EDT 1996
From the BOG Introduction -
The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) implements an Internet nameserver for the BSD operating system. The BIND consists of a server (or``daemon'') and a resolver library. A name server is a networkservice that enables clients to name resources or objects and share thisinformation with other objects in the network. This in effect is adistributed data base system for objects in a computer network. BINDis fully integrated into BSD (4.3 and later releases) network programsfor use in storing and retrieving host names and address. The systemadministrator can configure the system to use BIND as a replacement tothe older host table lookup of information in the network hosts file/etc/hosts. The default configuration for BSD uses BIND.