DNS misc

Tom Buskey tbuskey at gmail.com
Tue Apr 19 17:52:01 EDT 2005


On 4/19/05, Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net> wrote:
> Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > everybody else, Microsoft based their initial IP stack on BSD.  I
> > dunno how much of the BSD code survives in current stuff.
> 
> Was it BSD?  I couldn't remember.  They seem to have hosed it up
> pretty well over the years :)
> 

Just about everyone based their TCP stack on BSD.  It was the 1st, the
license was liberal, it worked and it was lean enough.

OBLinux: Linux has a BSD based stack too.

I wonder if there are any TCP stacks that are not derived from BSD.  
(SCO maybe??? ;-)



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