On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Paul Lussier wrote:
> 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 :)
Well, yah. Before the DNS was the Domain Name System for the entire
ARPANET, it was the Berkeley Internet Name Domain. I think the point was that
the name is no longer accurate. BIND is now the Internet Software Consortium
Internet Domain Protocol Implementation. Of course, ISCIDPI is much harder to
pronounce..... :-)
> It never really bothered me much either way ...
"Bothered" is the wrong word. The problem is confusion between ISC BIND and
the Unix syscall bind(2). Which one any particular program is talking about
is not always immediately apparent from context. :-)
> 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...
Interesting. I did not know that.
> ... (like most other ingenius things which were way ahead of their time).
Yes. How does it go? "Xerox PARC: Inventing the future... for everyone
else."
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