Noun

Singular bind

Plural binds

bind (plural binds)

1. A troublesome situation; a problem; a predicament or quandary.

Verb

Infinitive to bind

Third person singular binds

Simple past bound or rarely bounden

Past participle [[bound or rarely bounden]]

Present participle binding

to bind (third-person singular simple present binds, present participle binding, simple past and past participle bound or rarely bounden)

1. To connect
2. To couple
3. To put together in a cover, as of books
4. (computing) to associate an identifier with a value; to associate a variable name with the content of a storage location

BIND (pronounced /bʌɪnd/), for Berkeley Internet Name Domain, or named (pronounced /ˈneɪmˌdiː/), is the most commonly used DNS server on the Internet, especially on Unix-like systems, where it is a de facto standard. Supported by Internet Systems Consortium, BIND was originally created by four graduate students with CSRG at the University of California, Berkeley and first released with 4.3BSD. Paul Vixie started maintaining it in 1988 while working for DEC.

A new version of BIND (BIND 9) was written from scratch in part to address the architectural difficulties with auditing the earlier BIND code bases, and also to support DNSSEC (DNS Security Extensions). Other important features of BIND 9 include: TSIG, DNS notify, nsupdate, IPv6, rndc flush (remote name daemon control), views, multiprocessor support, and an improved portability architecture. rndc uses a shared secret to provide encryption for local and remote terminals during each session.