DNS and BIND | 
 enlarge | Authors: Cricket Liu, Paul Albitz
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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ISBN: 0596100574
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Amazon.co.uk 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.
Amazon.co.uk Review
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 optimising 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, Amazon.com
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just one word "perfect" May 7, 2008
Alex S (South East, UK)
Not being an IT pro, I am kind of average joe who when in need of something new to learn googles for it first or reads forums to get an impression of the scale. The task we had a year back was to install mail server in a small company network that never had any server before. And there you have it: one task pulls another and you need more knowledge, more books and more time to accomplish it. After all we had to get few things done for proper internetworking within our small business, something we have never had before: users authentication, files sharing, DNS resolution, mailing and most importantly backing up all that stuff. Not an easy thing when you first planned on running an e-mail server only and had no idea it would require fundamental re-structuring and investing.
Anyhow, I would like to say big big thank you to authors as the book helped us immensely in completing DNS and network design part almost in no time. There was no technology we came across that went on so smoothly. Clearly explained examples (tens of them), ready and working codes for most of the situations, plus great insight on probably all aspects of DNS integration into small business network - all that saved us time, hair and money as we tackled the tasks ourselves.
Recently, we have replaced our Exchange mail server with Solaris (Comm Suite) one and can't be happier. The book was in use again and again it was dead easy to configure and run BIND. Exactly as described. Very happy reader, would recommend to anyone.
THE BIBLE OF DNS! April 20, 2008
D. Matthews (West End, Glasgow, UK)
When people hear about DNS, they go, "Eh, what?" - DNS is very important to the Internet and anyone a I.T professional should consider buying a copy and reading it.
This book is a MUST for professionals. I have personally kept up to date with the editions of these books and totally recommend them.
A classic of the Internet age! December 29, 2007
faikeath
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 May 24, 2001
10 out of 10 found this review 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 October 24, 2000
john@j-east.dircon.co.uk (Thame, Oxfordshire - UK)
2 out of 4 found this review 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"
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