Paul Mockapetris (engineer)

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Paul Mockapetris proposed a DNS (Domain Name Server) architecture in 1983 in RFCs 882 and 883. He had recognised the problem in the early Internet (then ARPAnet) of holding name to address translations in a single table on a single host, and instead proposed a distributed and dynamic DNS database: essentially DNS as we have it today.