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Summary: Nothing happens on the Internet without DNS...
Review: ...And if you want to know how the DNS works (in general), and how BIND implements the DNS (in specific), then there simply is no substitute for this book.The fourth edition of this book (due to ship in May 2001) has been updated to cover BIND 8.2.x and the completely rewritten BIND 9.1.x series. If you are a domain administrator, you *MUST* have this book. Period. Buy a copy now. Heck, buy a couple of copies, knowing that in the relatively near future the one you had been using will be so worn out that you'll need a new one anyway, and you'll be glad you already have one on hand instead of having to wait a few days for it to ship. Indispensible. But then, I'm a little biased, since I was a reviewer of the 2nd edition of this book. ;-)
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Summary: THE book of DNS & BIND
Review: A must for all DNS admins. Although it only goes as far as BIND-4.9, the concepts and procedures for DNS hosting are common to BIND-8 too. Whether you've never owned a DNS service, or have been using it for a while, this book should be in your library. I hope they'll write a new edition for BIND-8 soon....
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Summary: A Must Have
Review: All sysadmins should own a copy of this book. I think this is the best technical book I have bought to date. DNS a breeze with this text, well done to the authors.
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Summary: Takes you from Start to Finished
Review: Before I read this I only knew what DNS stood for. Now i've brouht up several dns / dhcp servers from scratch..
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Summary: Highly recommended for Unix netadmins or the curious
Review: Before reading this book, using Bind was a daunting and intimidtaing task. Even when I followed examples on web tutorials, I found I still didn't understand what it was I was doing. But having read this book, I feel much more confident using Bind and DNS in general. Unintuitive config files are now totally readable, and fancy terms such as "zone" or "reverse mapping" make much more sense now. I definitely recommend this book to Unix netadmins because this book has a lot of practical advice for how best to optomize Bind in a network, and how to deal with tricky tasks such as delegating and compensating for network disasters (a must read section). Best of all, the book is very easy to read, rather humorous at times, and has something for people of all levels of experience. I whole heartedly give this book 5 stars, and strongly urge other Unix/LInux folks to read it too. Enjoy!
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Summary: Highly recommended for Unix netadmins or the curious
Review: Before reading this book, using Bind was a daunting and intimidtaing task. Even when I followed examples on web tutorials, I found I still didn't understand what it was I was doing. But having read this book, I feel much more confident using Bind and DNS in general. Unintuitive config files are now totally readable, and fancy terms such as "zone" or "reverse mapping" make much more sense now. I definitely recommend this book to Unix netadmins because this book has a lot of practical advice for how best to optomize Bind in a network, and how to deal with tricky tasks such as delegating and compensating for network disasters (a must read section). Best of all, the book is very easy to read, rather humorous at times, and has something for people of all levels of experience. I whole heartedly give this book 5 stars, and strongly urge other Unix/LInux folks to read it too. Enjoy!
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Summary: Makes Transition To Bind 8 Painless!
Review: Changing from a pre-8 version of BIND to version 8 of BIND is not as straightforward as previous upgrades have been. Then 'named.boot' file is entirely different, among other changes. This book is great at identifying the required changes and assisting in making those changes. DNS and BIND clarifies all the mysteries associated with BIND (named) and DNS. Easy to read. Covers every detail from getting and installing the latest BIND, to configuration and troubleshooting. Has a great chapter on nslookup and another that gives detailed explanations of just about every BIND related error message. The only thing they left out is info on configuring syslog to manipulate in a usable manner the BIND generated messages. For some reason, DNS seems to be a mystery to so many sysadmins. If it were as simple as people often pretend it is (typical system admin person: "Oh, I already know everything about DNS that I need to know... so why read a book or take a course?"), then why do I see 15,000+ lame server messages and 250+ mail CNAME messages every month? These errors are only the result of DNS configuration errors! Very few sysadmin people REALLY know as much about BIND and DNS as they should. If you are a sysadmin person, do yourself a favor and buy and read this book. If you are an IT manager, check your system administrator's book shelf. If this book is missing, then buy it for them and make them read it! (You should read it first, then develop some test questions to see if they really did read it!) This BOOK MUST BE REQUIRED READING for EVERY system administrator on any type of system connected to the Internet. If everyone that administered an Internet site read this book, we could probably reduce the error traffic on the Internet by 50% or more! This book also should be the basis of a required one-quarter undergraduate CS course at all schools that teach CS, CE, IT, or equivalent. One of the best written of the O'Reilly books. Jon R. Kibler, Systems Architect, Advanced Systems Engineering Technology, Inc.
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Summary: The Top Guide to DNS
Review: DNS & Bind by Cricket Liu has been the authoritative reference to all things DNS since it was first published several years ago. As I write this review in July of 2001, nothing has changed. Taking the reader from the basic concepts of DNS and distributed host databases to set up to administration, DNS & Bind delivers a complete package that no other title has been able to match. This book is easily the most comprehensive, well-organized, and clearly written text on DNS/BIND. Although the book does assume some prior experience with UNIX-type systems, it has enough high-level language and examples to keep the playing field even. Overall, I'd recommend this book to both novices and system administrators alike.
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Summary: The Top Guide to DNS
Review: DNS & Bind by Cricket Liu has been the authoritative reference to all things DNS since it was first published several years ago. As I write this review in July of 2001, nothing has changed. Taking the reader from the basic concepts of DNS and distributed host databases to set up to administration, DNS & Bind delivers a complete package that no other title has been able to match. This book is easily the most comprehensive, well-organized, and clearly written text on DNS/BIND. Although the book does assume some prior experience with UNIX-type systems, it has enough high-level language and examples to keep the playing field even. Overall, I'd recommend this book to both novices and system administrators alike.
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Summary: DNS & Bind a must for System Administrators
Review: DNS & Bind is without a doubt the most comprehensive "bible" for System Administrators, and Internet Service Providers. It is well written with detailed expainations of the concepts behind DNS and Unix bind. All examples are hands-on which make them invaluable for concept implementation. I recommend this book without reservations.
Joe Chimento;
Director of Internet Services;
BayTech Corp.
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