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The software was originally designed at the [[University of California, Berkeley]] (UCB) in the early 1980s. The name originates as an acronym of ''Berkeley Internet Name Domain'',<ref name="Terry">{{cite web
 
| url=http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1984/5957.html
 
| title=The Berkeley Internet Name Domain Server
 
| author=Douglas B. Terry
 
| author2=Mark Painter
 
| author3=David W. Riggle
 
| author4=Songnian Zhou
 
| last-author-amp=yes
 
| date=May 1984
 
| work=EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Technical Report No. UCB/CSD-84-182
 
| accessdate=2015-09-17}}</ref> reflecting the application's use within UCB. The software consists, most prominently, of the DNS server component, called ''named'', a contracted form of ''name [[Daemon (computing)|daemon]]''. In addition the suite contains various administration tools, and a DNS resolver interface library. The latest version of BIND is BIND 9, first released in 2000.
 
 
Starting in 2009, the [[Internet Software Consortium]] (ISC) developed a new software suite, initially called BIND10. With release version 1.2.0 the project was renamed ''Bundy'' to terminate ISC involvement in the project.
 

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BIND - Versatile, Classic, Complete Name Server Software

BIND (Berkely Internet Name Domain) is a popular software for translating domain names into IP addresses and usually found on Linux servers.

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