DNS and BIND, Fourth Edition

DNS & BIND Cookbook

SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide

TCP/IP Network Administration (3rd Edition; O'Reilly Networking)

Administration

The Concise Guide to DNS and BIND

Format: Paperback
Author: Nicolai Langfeldt
ReleaseDate: 20 September, 2000
Publisher: Que
Rating:

A good refresher
This is a good book for going over the core concepts of DNS and BIND. The boss tossed this one to me as he felt it was good.

This is not a "how to" book so if you are looking for config suggestions, don't bother.

If you don't understand DNS or BIND, then this book might be harder for you to follow things as it is geared more on advanced topics.

This book was a good refesher as I learned both DNS and BIND from the O'Reily book.

This book is geared more for the Unix side. The suggested tools will show that. There is some discussion of Windows but it is mainly about Dynamic DNS.

The book is a little dated as BIND 9 was "new" when it was published. It also talked about BIND 4.

Again it is not a bad book for a refresher or to get another explanation on how things work.

The Concise Guide to DNS and BIND
. I haven't had a chance to read the book yet, but it appears helpful from the parts that I have scanned.

Practical and to the point
It covers interesting and relevant fields (DDNS, security concerns, how to interface with DNS from different languages, . I liked this book.. . ) in addition to the basics, in enough depth to be really useful. It is practical and down-to-earth, with thorough examples, explaining how things work and why. It definitely helped me grok the ideas and concepts behind DNS.