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Cricket Liu, Paul Albitz
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Pages: 640 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0596100574
Pub: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Pub date: 2006-05-26
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 29824
Editorial Review:
DNS and BIND is an explanation of the glorious Domain Name System (DNS). DNS takes familiar Internet network and machine names (such as "Amazon.co.uk") and converts them to Internet Protocol (IP) addresses (such as "208.35.218.15") that are meaningful to routers and so useful for identifying the machine you want to reach. What's amazing is, DNS enables someone in Germany to refer, by name, to a computer in Mongolia even if no one in Germany has ever accessed the distant machine before. It's pretty much self-configuring too: no human effort in Germany is necessary to make the Mongolian machine reachable by name. DNS and BIND explains how DNS works better than any other piece of documentation, printed or otherwise. The work of Paul Albitz and Cricket Liu, now in its fourth revision, has long been considered a classic among systems administrators and network architects, particularly those with a UNIX bent.
The fourth edition is mainly an update: The authors have added coverage of incremental and conditional zone transfer with BIND's new NOTIFY features, as well as of Transaction Signatures (TSIG) and DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC). Sections on firewalling and DNS for IPv6 addresses have been expanded, and Albitz and Liu maintain their impeccable style that combines text and illustrative listings into an educational whole throughout. --David Wall
Topics covered: The Domain Name System (DNS) and how it's implemented by BIND (through versions 8.2.3 and 9.1.0), how to set up BIND, how to configure MX records for mail service, parent and child domains, NOTIFY, and DNS security.
Reader Reviews:
A classic of the Internet age! (0/0 people found this helpful)
This is now my 3rd copy of this book, I'm reviewing the 5th edition that I have just upgraded to. There isn't too much to say about this book really, if you are going to be administering DNS, especially so if you are using BIND then you need this book. The layout of information and the immense readability of it is fantastic.
I read my first copy nearly 10 years ago and with each upgrade (I've skipped every other one ish) it just keep itself current without backtracking. The familiarity of the book is a great bonus for me as I know I can pick up the new edition in another 5 years time and just get the new and relevant information that I need from it while still finding any example or detail quickly. As a sysadmin who has been doing DNS for nearly 10 years this is one of the books I would not want to be without.
An Excellent Textbook for the Unix Professional (10/10 people found this helpful)
I bought this book in order to understand and sort out the problems with the DNS setup of a large customer running multiple Unix systems. While it was a one-off purchase for a single job rather than part of any ongoing task I feel it was money very well spent. Whilst readable it is clearly a solid technical textbook aimed at people who do this for a living rather than a popular guide. For someone who just wants to learn about how the Internet works out of curiosity it would be pointless to buy this book. Ideally you need a fair knowledge of such things as Unix and TCP/IP to get the best out of this book, but if like me you do this to pay the mortgage and put food in front of the children, then this book is a must have for the low down on BIND and DNS.
A must have book for administrators of DNS (2/4 people found this helpful)
This book has everything for the novice upto expert level. This is one book I strongly recomend for those who use DNS on Unix/Linux. Synopsis - "It wasn't so difficult after all"
Probably the best DNS book out there (3/3 people found this helpful)
Many people refer to this book as the DNS bible, it takes you right from the very beginning building up your knowledge of DNS and continues to give all the information you need to get a bind server running. Of course there couldn't be a better pair of authors to write this book, as of course you will discover they are responsible (with the ISC) for maintaining bind. I would recommend this to anyone working with or setting up DNS servers on any flavour of UNIX.
3 C's: Clear, Concise, Comprehensive (0/0 people found this helpful)
Well, that says it all, really. If you need to set up name lookup services with any more complexity than editing /etc/hosts, then this book is for you. It takes the mystery out of what is one of the least well-documented but most important services on the internet.
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