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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. |