DNS and BIND, Fourth Edition

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DNS & BIND Cookbook

Format: Paperback
Author: Cricket Liu
ReleaseDate: October, 2002
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Rating:

Magic bullet for quick DNS fixes/receipies
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. If you need to understand the difference between BIND 9 or Windows AD DNS and BIND 8, this is not the book for 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.

A 'MUST HAVE' for new DNS Administrators
I've always trusted O'Reilly books for their detailed accuracy. This book has turned out to be the best investment I've made so far in my 20 year IT career. However, for the task at hand, I didn't need a book to explain WHY things work. . . I needed one to tell me how to GET them to work. This book was perfect! It doesn't replace the DNS and BIND, 4th Edition, but is a great compliment. . . Actually, I'm finding the 4th Edition a perfect compliment to the Cookbook.

A NICE PROBLEM-SOLVING ORIENTATION
It displayed utmost rationality in its simple and concise way of dealing with most problems, which arise from Domain Name Systems. "DNS & BIND Cookbook" is a problem-solving text, which Network Administrators will be glad to read. 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.