Book details of 'Dns and Bind'

Title	Dns and Bind
Author(s)	Cricket Liu, Paul Albitz, Mike Loukides
ISBN	1565925122
Language	English
Published	September 1998
Publisher	O'Reilly & Associates

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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.
Reviewer Rob Slade wrote:
Of the millions of users on the Internet, almost all are blissfully unaware of the complexity and magnitude of the task of network routing. How does the network know where to deliver a piece of email? In fact, given the packet nature of all Internet traffic, how do telnet or ftp packets get, reliably and generally quickly, to their destination? Few even recognize the term DNS, the Domain Name Service, which handles the problem. Administrators may have used BIND, the Berkeley Internet Name Domain program, to manage DNS, but may not fully understand the importance, use or finer aspects of it. This book gives both background and operational details. Topics covered include background of the system, an explanation of the workings of DNS, how to get BIND and a domain name, setting up BIND, DNS and email, configuring hosts, maintaining BIND, modifying domains, creation of subdomains, advanced features and security, nslookup, BIND debugging messages, troubleshooting, the Resolver and Name Server Library routines, as well as miscellaneous other information. Given the nature of the network routing problem, a full understanding of DNS likely requires actual hands-on work. Albitz and Liu have, however, put together clear, straightforward, and sometimes even lighthearted text to make the learning process as painless as possible. The book also covers more advanced topics than straightforward routing administration. Bind 8.1.2 is the basic version for the book, but it also looks back to Bind 4.8.3 and 4.9.x because of the number of shipping products that may still be based on those. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1995
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