DNS and BIND

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  • ISBN13: 9780596100575
  • Condition: NEW
  • Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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DNS and BIND tells you everything you need to work with one of the Internet’s fundamental building blocks: the distributed host information database that’s responsible for translating names into addresses, routing mail to its proper destination, and even listing phone numbers with the new ENUM standard. This book brings you up-to-date with the latest changes in this crucial service. The fifth edition covers BIND 9.3.2, the most recent release of the BIND 9 series, … More >> DNS and BIND

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Comment from Gregory J. Thielen
Time February 7, 2010 at 8:41 pm

Just received this item, planned on using for reference material. Haven’t gotten to read it yet though… Rating: 4 / 5

Comment from G. Keefe
Time February 7, 2010 at 10:22 pm

Given the history of security flaws with BIND, and its inferior performance compared to some other DNS server packages (such as DJBDNS), I found so large a book to be woefully inadequate in representing DNS as an Internet protocol, instead painting it merely as a supported feature of BIND. Rating: 3 / 5

Comment from Anonymous
Time February 7, 2010 at 11:12 pm

O’Reilly misses the mark with DNS and BIND. I have several shelf full of O’Reilly books and I think this one is far over complecated. The first example has about 12 machines that need to be configured, what about showing how to set up a caching name server? I have many books from O’Reilly that I have thought were a lot better. Rating: 3 / 5

Comment from Tim Greer
Time February 8, 2010 at 12:08 am

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. Rating: 3 / 5

Comment from C. Lee
Time February 8, 2010 at 2:46 am

Most all if not all of the principles covered in this book are current although BIND 9.1 is NOT. BIND is at 9.5 now. There is a fifth edition out that is more current. Unless they discount this heavily, I’d pass. Rating: 4 / 5

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