Paul Vixie

b. 1963, United States · Chair, Internet Systems Consortium; BIND 4/8 principal author

Also known as: Vixie

Paul Vixie maintained BIND (the Berkeley Internet Name Domain server) from 1989 to 1999 and authored major versions 4, 8, and 9. BIND has been the dominant DNS server on Linux since the 1980s. He co-founded the Internet Systems Consortium in 1994 to steward BIND and authored several DNS-related IETF RFCs.