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Can someone explain to me what the exact difference is between named and BIND?

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Nothing :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIND

named is just an alias of BIND.

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Yup. "nameD" fits the standard daemon naming conventions for Unix, wherein services are named "service"+"d" (httpd, smbd, dhcpd, ftpd, sshd, etcd). I supposed bindd was either conflicting with some other bin+d daemon, or not considered "user-friendly" enough...Oh jesus, just hurt myself a little saying that. – Satanicpuppy Apr 15 '10 at 1:57
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BIND stands for Berkeley Internet Name Domain, is the most commonly used Domain Name System (DNS) server on the Internet.

Named is the daemon used by BIND.

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