DNS & BIND Cookbook
Product Description
The DNS & BIND Cookbook presents solutions to the many problems faced by network administrators responsible for a name server. This title is an indispensable companion to DNS & BIND, 4th Edition, the definitive guide to the critical task of name server administration. The cookbook contains dozens of code recipes showing solutions to everyday problems, ranging from simple questions, like, “How do I get BIND?” to more advanced topics like providing name service for … More >>
DNS & BIND Cookbook
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Comment from Douggy Fresh
Time February 9, 2010 at 7:39 pm
This is one of those books for people what play around with webservers and DNS. There are more uptodate books now so only worth getting second hand.
It explains the topics in a very accessible way for anyone taking on the sys admin/network admin role.
Rating: 4 / 5
Comment from orangekay
Time February 9, 2010 at 9:17 pm
I can’t think of anything negative to say about this book. It’s certainly not an outright replacement for its bigger cousin “DNS & BIND”, but it is clearly written and well-organized; an excellent “how-to” resource to get you up and running quickly with a minimum of fuss and background theory. I’d like to see an updated version which covers DNS-SD in the near future. Rating: 5 / 5
Comment from Ubiquitous Geebles
Time February 9, 2010 at 11:00 pm
If you need to understand the difference between BIND 9 or Windows AD DNS and BIND 8, this is not the book for you. But if your management decides to tell you about the imporant new product launch on 20 servers in a new domain they just bought and kept under wraps to stun the competition which they need implemented in some novel way that requires a DNS twist, THIS will save you.
It will also save you if you are really a Windows admin, but you need to configure something in BIND. Or if you need to do something in BIND that you haven’t done before.
Or if you don’t care WHY you have to do task X, Y and then Z to get the desired result, but you need to know HOW? This is your book.
The WHY is in the BIND book from O’Reilly. Rating: 5 / 5
Comment from reviewer
Time February 10, 2010 at 12:46 am
“DNS & BIND Cookbook” is a problem-solving text, which Network Administrators will be glad to read. It displayed utmost rationality in its simple and concise way of dealing with most problems, which arise from Domain Name Systems. It also exposed all the factors, which are likely to escalate Berkeley Internet Name Domain problems, before providing their remedies in a clear sequential order.
Net Administrators (as well as voracious users of any of the major Operating Systems) would appreciate the inclusion of an easy-to-digest chapter on Internet Protocol version 6, (IPv6). This book clearly made the mark!
Apart from the rather summarized information, which I noticed on two of its chapters, (i.e.: ‘Create Zone Files For Your Domains’ and ‘Use Increment Transfer’), there is nothing that I will hold against this book. Cricket Liu did a very good job in writing it.
Rating: 4 / 5
Comment from DashNY
Time February 9, 2010 at 5:17 pm
I bought this book because I saw it had the “Upgrading to BIND9″ chapter. However I found very little information on how zone files are different in the new version or what advantages BIND9 offeres over its predecessors. Rating: 3 / 5