What is BIND and where can I get the latest version?
BIND stands for “Berkeley Internet Name Daemon”, and is the Internet de-facto standard program for turning host names into IP addresses. The BIND Home Page is at http://www.isc.org/bind.html, which provides pointers to the most recent release of BIND. In May of 1997, the first production version of BIND-8 was released. The ISC has deprecated BIND-4 other than for security related patches. No new features or portability changes will be added to BIND-4. You should be using BIND-8. Note that there are bugs in older resolver libraries, which can cause problems getting to large sites (that list more than five IP addresses for a particular name), or represent a huge security hole as they do not check the returned data to see if it will fit in the amount of space pre-allocated for it.
