On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Bruce Dawson wrote:
> > One of the great mysteries of the DNS world is: Why do they still refer
> > to 'bind' as 'named' - or vice versa?
>
> FWIW, I've heard the (possibly bogus) explanation that "BIND" is the whole
> package, including other utilities, while "named" is the specific program that
> answers DNS queries on port 53.
Not bogus IMHO. Don't forget the client side, i.e. the resolver libraries the
client apps (i.e. *all* network apps, from nc & telnet to netscape) use
do name resolution, etc.
This is related to /etc/resolv.conf, libresolv.so, and
/usr/include/resolv.h and historically the BIND package provided an
implementation (currently seems to be moved or reimplemented in
glibc).
Since these library services have NOTHING to do with running named on
the machine in question (e.g. a client box), you gotta call it
something.... I usually try to call it "the resolver library", though
it is easier (and unfortunally too vague) to say "bind library" or
"bind".
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