Paul Vixie
Keeper of the DNS
BIND, DNS RPZ, and the anti-abuse infrastructure nobody sees
Rating
90Impact score
Domains
DNSAnti-abuseInternet infrastructure
Scouting report
Maintained BIND for years and wrote or co-wrote a long run of DNS RFCs, then built the response-policy zone mechanism that lets defenders block malicious domains at the resolver. Founded the first anti-spam DNSBL, ran the Internet Software Consortium, operates F-root, and co-founded Farsight Security around passive DNS. Internet Hall of Fame, 2014.
Curator’s note
Ran the plumbing, then built the filters when the plumbing got abused.
Portrait
Painted from a photograph of Paul Vixie by ImaginingtheInternet, licensed CC BY 3.0.
Sources
- 01Paul Vixie en.wikipedia.org
- 02Internet Hall of Fame profile internethalloffame.org