Comments on: DNS and BIND

By: C. Lee

C. Lee — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:46:58 +0000

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

By: Tim Greer

Tim Greer — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:08:50 +0000

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

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:12:27 +0000

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

By: G. Keefe

G. Keefe — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:22:59 +0000

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

By: Gregory J. Thielen

Gregory J. Thielen — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:41:08 +0000

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