sendmail.net: Vixie Wraps BIND Nov 13, 1999, 01 :23 UTC (1 Talkback[s]) (3202 reads)
"On the verge of releasing a complete rewrite of
the DNS software BIND, and on the heels of MS
Hotmail's about-face subscription to his
spam-busting MAPS Realtime Blackhole List, Paul
Vixie made it known at LISA '99 on Wednesday
that he'll be stepping down from his pivotal role
as BIND's head architect and principal
maintainer."
"Often mistakenly identified as BIND's original
author, Vixie is in fact the person who took it to
the next level, laying the foundation for a new
economy along the way. "The reason I got
started working on BIND is that it didn't work,"
he said Wednesday. "So I started hacking the
code, people found out I was hacking the code
and asked for copies, and the rest is history."
"It was in the course of describing how the
completely rewritten BIND 9 came about that
Vixie mentioned his plan to pass on the mantle.
"I'm coming up on ten years working with BIND,
and now that the fresh, clean, from-scratch
implementation has none of my code in it, I'm
pretty much planning to retire from BIND. Ten
years is a long time."
