On May 22, 2012, at 9:10 PM, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: > On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 08:52:52PM -0700, Michael J Wise wrote: >> >> On May 22, 2012, at 8:35 PM, Randy Bush wrote: >> >>> father of bind? that's news. >> >> <http://boingboing.net/2012/03/29/paul-vixies-firsthand-accoun.html> >> >> He was there, and Put The Fix In, to down the network. > > Certainly news to Phil Almquist and the entire BIND development team > at UCB. Paul was at DECWRL and cut his teeth on pre-existing code.
Indeed, even the ISC history of the BIND project here: http://www.isc.org/software/bind/history shows that Paul's involvement began somewhere in the 4.9 timeframe. One could, however, argue that he is the father of modern BIND implementations. Owen