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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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The DNS bible. If you’re an system administrator with responsibility for DNS management, this book is a must. -- Andrew Ward, Computer Shopper, Feb 2002 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Best Book for DNS for Unix.....but not Perfect,
By Cody (Houston, TX United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: DNS and BIND (Paperback)
This book is read religiously by DNS newbies and administrators alike and for good reason; the book is easily the most thorough of its kind (which isn't saying much considering there is only one other book which really covers DNS & BIND from a strictly Unix perspective). However, it could be better. A couple of times, the author waits until very late in the book to explain what particular commands mean when he could have easily explained them early on to avoid confusion. In the very least, the author should cite a particular chapter for further reading on a particular subject more frequently instead of not even mentioning it. Also, the example/case used throughout the entire book is of a mock company which is setting up a *public* DNS (meaning it communicates with the Internet). The author doesn't mention even once what a user might do if he's setting up an internal DNS for *private* use (not on the Internet). The reader is forced to either make assumptions (not a safe thing to do) or seek documentation elsewhere on this topic. Another complaint I have is that the author does not spend enough time to explain how one might go about mapping devices with multiple interfaces (e.g. routers...sorry, three ambiguous sentences is not enough). That having been said, I still must give it four stars considering it provides plenty of examples (even if none of them reflect a private DNS!) and thorough explanation of how DNS and BIND works. Setting up a DNS without this book would be rather difficult. The only other book worth considering is 'The Concise Guide to DNS & BIND'. (...)
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
This is okay... nothing exciting.,
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This review is from: DNS and BIND (Paperback)
I've you've used BIND much at all and are familair with DNS and how it works a little, and have just read the install, readme, etc. files, you probably won't get much out of this book. BIND has a lot of options and there's a lot to discuss, but this book just covered a lot of basics over a lot of pages. It may be a good source for learning, but I wasn't reading it to learn from start.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent DNS Guide,
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This review is from: DNS and BIND (Paperback)
I have both the 3rd and 4th editions of this book. It is a must-read kind of book for those needing to do DNS. I need an understanding of how DNS and BIND work since I wish to get my own internet services re-started. This book provides it. In my experience, DNS can be as painful to re-do correctly as it is to initially set up correctly because once you do have it running properly you can just forget all about it. It "Just Works". So when you are later faced with having to re-learn DNS it can be as painful as the initial learning experience. That is why a book with many how-to coding examples for different DNS zones becomes valuable. I sure wish this book had the examples.With the understanding that I've only read the first 89 of 600+ pages, I'd like to agree with all the positives cited by other reviewers. You really must get, and read, and re-read, and re-read this book if you want to run web servers, mailing lists, and so on. For such a comprehensive book, it offers only one getting-started example of use to someone wanting to set up his or her own domain quickly (like me.) The movie.edu examples given are excellent, but at least one additional example is really needed. How about discussion of and coding examples for a zone named video.biz consisting of 4 machines on the same network plus a print server and a Linksys Cable/DSL router? You know, the kind of zone someone at home or running a small business would establish. Also I would like to see a new Appendix, Appendix F, discussing common DNS coding mistakes based on the authors experience. Often seeing examples of coding mistakes can help people like me avoid them.
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