BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain ou, como chamado previamente, Berkeley Internet Name Daemon) é o servidor para o protocolo DNS mais utilizado na Internet, especialmente em sistemas do tipo Unix, onde ele pode ser considerado um padrão de fato. Foi criado por quatro estudantes de graduação, membros de um grupo de pesquisas em ciência da computação da Universidade de Berkeley, e foi distribuído pela primeira vez com o sistema operacional BSD 4.3. O programador Paul Vixie, enquanto trabalhava para a empresa DEC, foi o primeiro mantenedor do BIND. Atualmente o BIND é suportado e mantido pelo Internet Systems Consortium.
Para a versão 9 o BIND foi praticamente reescrito. Ele passou a suportar, dentre outras funcionalidades, a extensão DNSSEC e os protocolos TSIG e IPv6.
História
O BIND foi escrito originalmente no início da década de 1980 em um projeto suportado pela agência DARPA. Em meados dos anos 80, funcionários da DEC assumiram o seu desenvolvimento. Um destes funcionários era Paul Vixie, que continuou o seu trabalho com o BIND após deixar a empresa. Ele ajudou na criação da organização ISC que se tornou responsável pela manutenção do programa.
O desenvolvimento do BIND 9 foi realizado através de uma combinação de contratos comerciais e militares. A maioria das funcionalidades do BIND 9 eram promovidas por empresas fornecedoras de sistemas Unix que queriam garantir que o BIND se manteria competitivo com as ofertas de servidores DNS da Microsoft. Por exemplo, a extensão de segurança DNSSEC foi financiada pelos militares estadunidenses que perceberam a importância da segurança para o servidor DNS.
Fonte: 
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIND 
Script para instalação e configuração do Bind9
O código abaixo pode ser 
obtido aqui.
#!/bin/bash
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#Sistema de Configuração de Servidores Bind9                                                             
#Desenvolvido por Douglas Q. dos Santos                                                       
#<douglashx@gmail.com>
# Criado em 19/10/2009 - Ultima alteração em 19/10/2009   
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######################COMANDOS UTILIZADOS NO SCRIPT#############
APTITUDE=$(which aptitude)
CAT=$(which cat)
CHMOD=$(which chmod)
CHOWN=$(which chown)
DATA=$(which date)
LN=$(which ln)
MKDIR=$(which mkdir)
MKNOD=$(which mknod)
MV=$(which mv)
SLEEP=$(which sleep)
CUT=$(which cut)
############################################################
###################CAMINHO DA JAULA DO BIND######################
PATH_BIND="/var/lib/named"
############################################################
###################VARIÁVEIS PARA A CONFIGURAÇÃO DAS ZONAS#########
echo -n "Forneça o nome do domínio a ser configurado (dominio.com.br): "
read DOMAIN
echo -n "Forneça a faixa de IP da rede valida (ip/mask EX:10.10.10.0/24): "
read NETWORK_RANGE
echo -n "Forneça o endereço IP do servidor NS1 (ip): "
read NS1_IP
echo -n "Forneça o endereço IP do servidor NS2 (ip): "
read NS2_IP
echo -n "Forneça o endereço IP do servidor MX (ip): "
read MX_IP
echo -n "Forneça o endereço IP do servidor WWW (ip): "
read WWW_IP
echo
############################################################
######################INSTALAÇÃO DOS PACOTES####################
echo "A instalação sera iniciada em 5 segundos"
${SLEEP} 5
${APTITUDE} update
${APTITUDE} install bind9 dnsutils -y
/etc/init.d/bind9 stop
#############################################################
######################CRIAÇÃO DA ARVORE DE DIRETÓRIOS##############
${MKDIR} -p ${PATH_BIND}/etc
${MKDIR} -p ${PATH_BIND}/dev
${MKDIR} -p ${PATH_BIND}/var/cache/bind
${MKDIR} -p ${PATH_BIND}/var/run/bind/run
${MKNOD} ${PATH_BIND}/dev/null c 1 3
${MKNOD} ${PATH_BIND}/dev/random c 1 8
######################AJUSTANDO PERMISSÕES#######################
${CHMOD} 666 ${PATH_BIND}/dev/null ${PATH_BIND}/dev/random
${CHOWN} -R bind:bind ${PATH_BIND}/var/*
${MV} /etc/bind ${PATH_BIND}/etc
${LN} -s ${PATH_BIND}/etc/bind /etc/bind
${CHOWN} -R bind:bind ${PATH_BIND}/etc/bind
######################AJUSTANDO O ARQUIVO /etc/default/bind9############
${CAT} <<EOF > /etc/default/bind9
#/etc/default/bind9
RESOLVCONF=yes
# startup options for the server
#OPTIONS="-u bind"
OPTIONS="-u bind -t ${PATH_BIND}"
EOF
##############################################################
######################AJUSTANDO O ARQUIVO /etc/resolv.conf#############
${CAT} <<EOF > /etc/resolv.conf
domain ${DOMAIN}
nameserver 127.0.0.1
EOF
##############################################################
######################EXTRAINDO O ENDEREÇO REVERSO DO NS1###########
REV3=$(echo ${NS1_IP} | cut -d '.' -f 3)
REV2=$(echo ${NS1_IP} | cut -d '.' -f 2)
REV1=$(echo ${NS1_IP} | cut -d '.' -f 1)
IP_REVERSE=${REV3}.${REV2}.${REV1}
######################AJUSTANDO O ARQUIVO /etc/bind/named.conf.options#####
${MV} ${PATH_BIND}/etc/bind/named.conf.options ${PATH_BIND}/etc/bind/named.conf.options.orig
${CAT} <<EOF > ${PATH_BIND}/etc/bind/named.conf.options
options {
   directory "/var/cache/bind";
   
   // If there is a firewall between you and nameservers you want                  
   // to talk to, you might need to uncomment the query-source
   // directive below.  Previous versions of BIND always asked
   // questions using port 53, but BIND 8.1 and later use an unprivileged
   // port by default.
   
   // query-source address * port 53;
   
   // If your ISP provided one or more IP addresses for stable
   // nameservers, you probably want to use them as forwarders.
   // Uncomment the following block, and insert the addresses replacing
   // the all-0's placeholder.
   
   // forwarders {
   //      0.0.0.0;
   // };
   
   auth-nxdomain no;    # conform to RFC1035
   listen-on-v6 { any; };
   
   listen-on { 127.0.0.1/32; ${NETWORK_RANGE}; };
   allow-query { any; };
   allow-recursion { 127.0.0.1/32; };
   allow-transfer { none; };
   version "Nao disponível";
};
EOF
###############################################################
#######################AJUSTANDO O ARQUIVO /etc/bind/named.conf.local#######
${MV} ${PATH_BIND}/etc/bind/named.conf ${PATH_BIND}/etc/bind/named.conf.orig
${CAT} <<EOF > ${PATH_BIND}/etc/bind/named.conf
// This is the primary configuration file for the BIND DNS server named.
//
// Please read /usr/share/doc/bind9/README.Debian.gz for information on the 
// structure of BIND configuration files in Debian, *BEFORE* you customize 
// this configuration file.
//
// If you are just adding zones, please do that in /etc/bind/named.conf.local
include "/etc/bind/named.conf.options";
// prime the server with knowledge of the root servers
zone "." {
   type hint;
   file "/etc/bind/db.root";
};
// be authoritative for the localhost forward and reverse zones, and for
// broadcast zones as per RFC 1912
zone "localhost" {
   type master;
   file "/etc/bind/db.local";
};
zone "127.in-addr.arpa" {
   type master;
   file "/etc/bind/db.127";
};
zone "0.in-addr.arpa" {
   type master;
   file "/etc/bind/db.0";
};
zone "255.in-addr.arpa" {
   type master;
   file "/etc/bind/db.255";
};
zone "${DOMAIN}" {
   type master;
   file "db.${DOMAIN}";
   allow-transfer { ${NS2_IP}; };
};
zone "${IP_REVERSE}.in-addr.arpa" {
   type master;
   file "db.${IP_REVERSE}";
   allow-transfer { ${NS2_IP}; };
};
include "/etc/bind/named.conf.local";
EOF
#################################################################
###############AJUSTANDO O ARQUIVO /var/lib/named/var/cache/bind/db.dominio.com.br##
${CAT} <<EOF > ${PATH_BIND}/var/cache/bind/db.${DOMAIN}
`echo '$TTL 86400'`
@ IN SOA  dns.${DOMAIN}. root.dns.${DOMAIN}. (
                        `date +%Y%m%d`01  ; Serial
                        3600       ; Refresh
                        1800        ; Retry
                        604800      ; Expire
                        3600 )     ; Minimum
; 
@      IN    NS   ${DOMAIN}.
@               IN   NS   ns1.${DOMAIN}.
@               IN    NS   ns2.${DOMAIN}.
@               IN    MX   0 mail.${DOMAIN}.
;NAME SERVERS
@               IN    A    ${NS1_IP}
ns1             IN    A    ${NS1_IP}
ns2             IN    A    ${NS2_IP}
dns             IN    A    ${NS1_IP}
;MAIL SERVERS
mail            IN    A    ${MX_IP}
imap            IN    CNAME mail
pop             IN    CNAME mail
smtp            IN    CNAME mail
webmail         IN    CNAME mail
;WEB SERVERS
adm             IN    A    ${WWW_IP}
www             IN    A    ${WWW_IP}
ftp             IN    CNAME www
dbadmin         IN    CNAME www
mailadmin       IN    CNAME www
EOF
#####################################################################
#####################RETIRANDO OS ENDEREÇOS FINAIS PARA O ARQUIVO REVERSO######
REV_NS1=$(echo ${NS1_IP} | cut -d '.' -f 4)
REV_NS2=$(echo ${NS2_IP} | cut -d '.' -f 4)
REV_MX=$(echo ${MX_IP} | cut -d '.' -f 4)
REV_WWW=$(echo ${WWW_IP} | cut -d '.' -f 4)
#####################################################################
##########AJUSTANDO O ARQUIVO /var/lib/named/var/cache/bind/db.10.10.10###############
${CAT} <<EOF > ${PATH_BIND}/var/cache/bind/db.${IP_REVERSE}
`echo '$TTL 86400'`
@ IN SOA  dns.${DOMAIN}. root.dns.${DOMAIN}. (
                        `date +%Y%m%d`01  ; Serial
                        3600       ; Refresh
                        1800        ; Retry
                        604800      ; Expire
                        3600 )     ; Minimum
; 
@      IN    NS   ${DOMAIN}.
@               IN   NS   ns1.${DOMAIN}.
@               IN    NS   ns2.${DOMAIN}.
@               IN    MX   0 mail.${DOMAIN}.
;NAME SERVERS
${REV_NS1}      IN    PTR    ${DOMAIN}.
${REV_NS1}      IN    PTR    ns1.${DOMAIN}.
${REV_NS2}      IN    PTR    ns2.${DOMAIN}.
${REV_NS1}      IN    PTR    dns.${DOMAIN}.
;MAIL SERVERS
${REV_MX}       IN    PTR    mail.${DOMAIN}.
;WEB SERVERS
${REV_WWW}      IN    PTR    adm.${DOMAIN}.
${REV_WWW}      IN    PTR    www.${DOMAIN}.
EOF
####################################################################
#########################INICIANDO OS SERVIÇOS##########################
/etc/init.d/bind9 start
#/etc/init.d/bind9 start
####################################################################
###########################MENSAGEM DE FINALIZAÇÃO######################
echo
echo "INSTALAÇÃO FINALIZADA"
echo "Faca os ajustes necessários e reinicie o serviço *bind9*"
echo "Os Logs serão gerados no arquivo /var/log/syslog        "
echo
####################################################################
exit 0