DNS and BIND, Fourth Edition

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Summary: THE book for DNS admins
Review: This is one of the classical O'Reilly books with which O'Reilly got it's status of "you need to have this book". With this book it was easy to set up a domain name server on linux in no time. It goes very deep into details of DNS and BIND, so that one can probably handle DNS whithout other books. The chapters of the book are: 1.) Background, 2.) How Does DNS Work?, 3.) Where Do I Start?, 4.) Setting Up BIND, 5.) DNS and Electronic Mail, 6.) Configuring Hosts, 7.) Maintaining BIND, 8.) Growing Your Domain, 9.) Parenting, 10.) Advanced Features and Security, 11.) nslookup, 12.) Reading BIND Debugging Output, 13.) Troubleshooting DNS and BIND, 14.) Programming with the Resolver and Name Server Library Routines, 15.) Miscellaneous and F Appendices.

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Summary: The de facto standard reference for DNS
Review: This is the best book (if not the only book) to have with you when you're working with DNS. It has useful, clear, and well-explained examples. Its presentation of real-life scenarios and how to solve them in a reasonable manner is very thorough. Its well-written style is very easy to follow for beginners as well as experts. It's money well-spent considering how much knowledge you stand to gain from this book. It definitely belongs in the UNIX classic category.

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Summary: The de facto standard reference for DNS
Review: This is the best book to have with you when you're working with DNS. It has useful, clear, and well-explained examples. Its presentation of real-life scenarios and how to solve them in a reasonable manner is very thorough. You are shown how to troubleshoot problems using nslookup, dig, and BIND's own debug output. The fourth edtion expands on security and new features found in BIND 9. A well-written book that is very easy to follow for beginners and experts alike. It should be required reading for anyone working with DNS. This book definitely belongs in the classic category.

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Summary: Definitive desktop reference
Review: This is the definitive guide to DNS and the Bind implementation. If you don't understand it by reading this book, you never will.

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Summary: Quite good for beginners. but beginners dont run DNS :-)
Review: Well this book is quite good for beginnners, but like I said, beginners dont attempt to run DNS :-). Maybe they want to know more about it, which then its good for the first few chapters, but the rest is on configuration and installation of the software, which is quite good I must admit. I allways use it and find it handy