DNS & BIND Cookbook

by Cricket Liu

The DNS & BIND Cookbook presents solutions to the many problems faced by network administrators responsible for a name server. Following O'Reilly's popular problem-and-solution cookbook format, 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 IPv6 addresses. It's full of BIND configuration files that you can adapt to your sites requirements. With the wide range of recipes in this book, you'll be able to and much more. These recipes encompass all the day-to-day tasks you're faced with when managing a name server, and many other tasks you'll face as your site grows. Written by Cricket Liu, a noted authority on DNS, and the author of the bestselling DNS & BIND and DNS on Windows 2000 , the DNS & BIND Cookbook belongs in every system or network administrator's library.

Genres: Technical, Technology, Reference, Computers

240 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2002

Reviews

[Stephen · Rating 2 out of 5]

A long time ago I managed some zones on a couple Bind 9 servers for work. I was also known to buy a lot of the O'Reilly Cookbook books. I never found myself really referencing the DNS & Bind Cookbook all that much, unlike some others I made use of. To be fair, I feel that if I needed to truly look up how to do something, I'd use DNS & Bind instead (a book I made much more use of when I was first learning how to manage a DNS server). I thought I'd read this one through, and though dated, it still has all the feel of any of the other Cookbook books, I personally just found it not as useful, hence the lower rating.

(On a side note, I did discover in Chapter 10 a way to potentially solve a DNS issue I currently have concerning the ISP that maintains the zone for our organization).