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Paul Vixie, anyone?

Started by David Morgan Buttrick on Tuesday, January 4, 2022
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David Morgan Buttrick PRO
1/4/2022 at 5:12 PM

I'm starting to do a search for Paul Vixie, he's definitely an Internet Luminary - I'm not sure that he invented DNS, but his work on it has been prolific. He's one of the early contributors to the internet gaining commercial adoption.

Skeeter Wesinger
1/5/2022 at 4:38 AM

Hi David,

Vixie didn't invent DNS, but Paul Mockapetris might have. In the early days of ARPANET, each machine needed its own map of names to addresses. As the network grew this was difficult hence the DNS server came to be. You're looking for real pioneers like Ralph Ungermann or Charlie Bass. People who invented things and wrote United Patents and had them issued. In my humble oppinion.

Skeeter Wesinger
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