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13: .sh 1 Introduction
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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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