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Happy Birthday, Dear DNS

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the better-than-most-tlas dept.

Shloka writes with a snippet from Wired News: "Twenty years ago Monday, two computer scientists at the University of Southern California created a key component essential to the modern Internet. Jon Postel and Paul Mockapetris ran the first successful test of the automated domain name system, or DNS..."

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  1. Awh, so cute! by rosewood · · Score: 4, Informative

    Its funny because I just setup my first authoritive DNS server ever this week. It was fun stuff.

    I used safari.oreilly.com to get me the DNS and BIND book + other helpful things all for (well free for 2 weeks) $15. Thats just friggen awesome.

    Ill just add this little tidbit: SBC has its in-addr.arpa. shiz setup as IN-ADDR.ARPA. Aparently this makes a big fucking difference. So, if tomorrow you decide to celebrate 20 years of DNS by setting up a new authoritive server with SBC, make sure you setup your zone file to be authoritive for IN-ADDR.ARPA. not in-addr.arpa. like the books say :)

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  2. Let's not forget Dr. Vinton Cerf by dmehus · · Score: 4, Informative

    On this anniversary, let us not forgot one of the other fathers of the Internet, Dr. Vinton Cerf who co-created the TCP/IP protocol and was a major contributor to the invention of DNS. Dr. Cerf is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors at ICANN and Senior Vice President for Architecture and Technology at MCI®. So, Dr. Cerf, combined with Dr. Postel and Mr. Mockapetris, are the three fathers (or, father, mother, and uncle) of the Internet.

    Best,
    Doug

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  3. Re:Using the Internet before DNS by Ben+Hutchings · · Score: 3, Informative

    Ford did get a class A - 19.0.0.0/8:

    $ whois NET-19-0-0-0-1
    OrgName: Ford Motor Company
    OrgID: FORDMO
    Address: P.O. Box 2053, RM E-1121
    City: Dearborn
    StateProv: MI
    PostalCode: 48121-2053
    Country: US

    NetRange: 19.0.0.0 - 19.255.255.255
    CIDR: 19.0.0.0/8
    NetName: FINET
    NetHandle: NET-19-0-0-0-1
    Parent:
    NetType: Direct Assignment
    NameServer: DNS004.FORD.COM
    NameServer: DNS003.FORD.COM
    Comment:
    RegDate: 1988-06-15
    Updated: 1999-12-07

    TechHandle: ZF4-ARIN
    TechName: Ford Motor Company
    TechPhone: +1-313-390-7095
    TechEmail: dnsadmin@ford.com

    # ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2003-06-22 21:05
    # Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database.