(flourished mid-8th century BC): ancient Greek poet, author of Labours and Days.
Greek poet whose existing works describe rural life and the genealogies of the gods and the beginning of the world (eighth century BC)
a name coined by Project Athena for the "name-server" services of the network, which keeps track of resources and translates a request for a logical destination to a physical location. Named after the Greek poet, Hesiod.
A name service that keeps track of information (e.g., post office servers, printers, and machines) in a distributed network environment such as MITnet. Hesiod keeps track of each registered MIT email user's post office server where his/her email account resides. When configuring an email program that supports the use of hesiod (e.g., Eudora) it's advantageous to specify "hesiod" as your incoming mail server. This eliminates problems associated with your email account being moved to another post office server. Email accounts are moved from one server to another from time to time to redistribute the load.
A poet who wrote c700 BCE discussing the origins of the universe
Hesiod (Hesiodos, ) was an early Greek poet and rhapsode, who presumably lived around 700 BC. Hesiod and Homer, with whom Hesiod is often paired, have been considered the earliest Greek poets whose work has survived since at least Herodotus's time (Histories, 2.53). Historians have debated which lived first, and some authors have even brought them together in an imagined poetic contest.
In computing, the Hesiod name service originated in Project Athena (1983 - 1991). It uses DNS functionality to provide access to databases of information that changes infrequently. In Unix environments it often serves to distribute information kept in the /etc/passwd, /etc/group, and /etc/printcap files, among others.