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1.1 ! root 1: .\" Copyright (c) 1986, 1988 Regents of the University of California. ! 2: .\" All rights reserved. ! 3: .\" ! 4: .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted ! 5: .\" provided that this notice is preserved and that due credit is given ! 6: .\" to the University of California at Berkeley. The name of the University ! 7: .\" may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this ! 8: .\" software without specific prior written permission. This software ! 9: .\" is provided ``as is'' without express or implied warranty. ! 10: .\" ! 11: .\" @(#)intro.me 6.2 (Berkeley) 2/28/88 ! 12: .\" ! 13: .sh 1 Introduction ! 14: .pp ! 15: The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) Server implements ! 16: the DARPA Internet name server for the UNIX\(dg operating system. ! 17: .(f ! 18: \(dgUNIX is a Trademark of AT&T Bell Laboratories ! 19: .)f ! 20: A name server is a network service that enables clients to name ! 21: resources or objects and share this information with other objects ! 22: in the network. ! 23: This in effect is a distributed data base system for ! 24: objects in a computer network. ! 25: BIND is fully intergrated into 4.3BSD network programs for use in storing and ! 26: retrieving host names and address. ! 27: The system administrator can configure the system to use BIND ! 28: as a replacement to the original host table lookup of information in the ! 29: network hosts file \fI/\|etc/\|hosts\fP. ! 30: The default configuration for 4.3BSD uses BIND.
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