In a message dated: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 11:50:50 EST
Benjamin Scott said:
>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.
>
> Personally, I'm with you. I actually think both names are bad. The word
>"bind" is used for so many other things (as Thomas's message shows), and the
>name "BIND" is obsolete (modern BIND has about as much to do with Berkeley as
>Linux's "sunrpc" implementation has to do with Sun). Meanwhile, "named" is
>non-obvious, overly general, and leads to pronunciation confusion.
Well, I think it's called BIND because that's where it was developed, and
that's the license it's under (Could be wrong here :) It never really
bothered me much either way, and the only people I've ever run into who got
really confused by it were those who hadn't read the O'Reilly book on DNS/BIND
:) So look at this way, it a mechanism to help you more easily weed out those
who have yet to RTFM :)
As for "sunrpc" I think that's even *more* of a misnomer, since Sun did
nothing to "invent" RPC, they just decided to use it for NFS/NIS
implementation. RPC came out of Xerox (like most other ingenius things which
were way ahead of their time). XNS, which was a protocol suite originally
designed by Xerox Corporation in late 1970's. Many PC networking companies,
such as 3Com, Banyan, Novell, and Ungermann-Bass Networks used or currently
use a variation of XNS as their primary transport protocol. XNS heavily
relied upon RPC.
Just my $.02.
--
Seeya,
Paul
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