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by Cricket Liu (Author), Paul Albitz (Author), Liu Cricket (Author), Albitz Paul (Author)
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This is the definitive book on the Domain Name System (DNS), the powerful scheme that facilitates the translation of English-like domain names (www.amazon.com) into computer-comprehensible Internet Protocol (IP) addresses (208.216.182.15). If you run a DNS server of any kind, particularly under Unix, you need to have this book on hand.

This book's early chapters give a view of DNS from high altitude, explaining basic concepts such as domains, name servers, and name resolution. From there, the authors proceed on a more practical tack, presenting specific instructions for setting up your own domain and DNS server using BIND. The authors then tell you what to do as your domain grows and you need to add more machines, subdomains, and greater throughput capacity. They also talk a lot about nslookup and C programming with the various DNS and BIND libraries. Administrators will find the chapter on BIND debugging output particularly helpful. Here, the authors translate BIND's mysterious error messages and offer specific strategies for fixing and optimizing the program. This edition covers BIND 8.1.2, but pays lots of attention to older versions that are still in wide use (4.8.3 and 4.9). The authors are careful to note differences among the versions. --David Wall --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.



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'Now into its fourth edition, updated to cover BIND 9, the O'Reilly textbook has already attained classic status. DNS and BIND can be found on the shelf, or more likely open on the desk, of most clued-up system administrators... Don't expect a fun read ... the subject matter is a little dry for that ... but if you like your Unix and want to truly understand how DNS works in general and in practice within your enterprise, this is the book to buy.' - Davey Winder, PC PRO, September 'This book has been the bible for DNS administration since 1992. .. I can't fault this new edition of the book. The first edition serve me well when I was setting up my first DNS server. The book still achieves what it sets out to do, and explains DNS and BIND. This has got more complicated (sorry, feature rich!) over the years, but this book still explains it in clear terms. O'Reilly rightly made their name through publishing titles like this.' - Joel Smith, new@UK, December 2001 'This book is as useful now as it was back in the mid 90's. Buy it if you have to do any more than be a simple user of DNS. As a measure of how times change, the appendices no longer show you how to compile and install BIND on a Sun operating system, it is now shown with Linux.' - Raza Rizvi, new@UK, December 2001 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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5.0 out of 5 stars O'Reilly Rules, May 1 2004
By D. Elmore (South) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: DNS and Bind, 4th Edition (Paperback)
If you've been afraid of diving into the depths of DNS, maybe because your readings through a few RFC documents proved fruitless, then fear no more.

In the first few chapter your taught how DNS servers work, sparing no detail. Concepts like negative-caching, recursive resolution, and inverse queries are explained and demonstrated with great examples and graphs. The chapters on configuring and managing BIND almost make things look too simple and easy. This is also a great book to learn how to use tools like 'nslookup' and 'dig'.

When it comes to the world of DNS records it's hard to find authoritative answers to questions, besides a few sites like Mr.DNS, the authors of this book recognized that need and sought to help fill the gap of knowledge.

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5.0 out of 5 stars DNS and BIND, Fourth Edition, Mar 13 2004
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This review is from: DNS and Bind, 4th Edition (Paperback)
If you want to learn DNS then this is a must have book. It is clearly written and informative.
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3.0 out of 5 stars This is okay... nothing exciting., May 11 2003
By Tim Greer "Mr. Tim" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: DNS and Bind, 4th Edition (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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Very Practical Guide
I bought this book to understand the basics
of DNS. Needless to say the book did its job
well. Explains the concepts, set up and
Administration very well. Read more
Published on Aug 31 2002 by Santosh Raghavan

5.0 out of 5 stars A tough topic explained well and accurately
DNS is a tough topic to explain; especially to those of us that have always worked in the Microsoft/WINS world. This book does a great job of that. Read more
Published on April 23 2002 by kentakazawasf

5.0 out of 5 stars Coolest Guide for DNS Administrators
This Book gives to all DNS Administrators the correct understanding of DNS facilities. I personally recommend this book for all people (Senior or Junior Engineers)that needs to... Read more
Published on April 21 2002 by Elier Cruz

5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommended for Unix netadmins or the curious
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... Read more
Published on Mar 23 2002 by Gerald Ford

5.0 out of 5 stars Setting up BIND on a *ix server? Start here.
I really needed to understand DNS/BIND; not just know how to start, run, and update it- but really understand DNS. This book was perfect. Read more
Published on Jan 9 2002 by Kip Perkins

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent DNS Guide
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. Read more
Published on Dec 23 2001 by Robert L. Cochran

4.0 out of 5 stars Best Book for DNS for Unix.....but not Perfect
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... Read more
Published on Dec 11 2001 by Cody

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Book
I bought this book then Craig Hunt's DNS book. This book is better. I bought Craig's hoping it would be easier to read which it was but I found myself going back to O'Reillys time... Read more
Published on Dec 2 2001 by Gene Ballard

5.0 out of 5 stars The de facto standard reference for DNS
This is the best book to have with you when you're working with DNS. It has useful, clear, and well-explained examples. Read more
Published on Aug 11 2001 by John Nguyen

5.0 out of 5 stars The bible of BIND
I work as DNS Administrator for a ccTLD registry. I bought the second edition and my company has the third edition. Read more
Published on Aug 2 2001 by Sebastian Castro Avila

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