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                     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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