Average customer rating: Great Resource By far the best DNS introduction This is the reference manual for DNS/BIND wordy and confusing There's a reason this is the DNS bible

DNS and BIND (5th Edition) Cricket Liu , and Paul Albitz Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Intranets & Extranets | Networking | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books LAN | Networks, Protocols & APIs | Networking | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books General | Networks, Protocols & APIs | Networking | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books Administration | Unix | Operating Systems | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books General | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books General | Unix & Linux | O'Reilly | By Publisher | Books Network Administration | O'Reilly | By Publisher | Books Similar Items: DNS & BIND Cookbook LDAP System Administration SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide The Book of Postfix: State-of-the-Art Message Transport DNS on Windows Server 2003 ASIN: 0596100574

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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. --David Wall

Book Description

DNS and BIND tells you everything you need to work with one of the Internet's fundamental building blocks: the distributed host information database that's responsible for translating names into addresses, routing mail to its proper destination, and many other services. This book brings you up-to-date with the latest changes in this crucial service.

The fifth edition covers BIND 9.3.2, the most recent release of the BIND 9 series, as well as BIND 8.4.7. BIND 9.3.2 contains further improvements in security and IPv6 support, and important new features such as internationalized domain names, ENUM (electronic numbering), and SPF (the Sender Policy Framework).

Whether you're an administrator involved with DNS on a daily basis or a user who wants to be more informed about the Internet and how it works, you'll find that this book is essential reading.

• What DNS does, how it works, and when you need to use it
• How to find your own place in the Internet's namespace
• Setting up name servers
• Using MX records to route mail
• Configuring hosts to use DNS name servers
• Subdividing domains (parenting)
• Securing your name server: restricting who can query your server, preventing unauthorized zone transfers, avoiding bogus servers, etc.
• The DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) and Transaction Signatures (TSIG)
• Mapping one name to several servers for load sharing
• Dynamic updates, asynchronous notification of change to a zone, and incremental zone transfers
• Troubleshooting: using nslookup and dig, reading debugging output, common problems
• DNS programming using the resolver library and Perl's Net::DNS module

Customer Reviews:

Great Resource.......2007-09-14

This book is a good in-depth resource for anyone who wants a very comprehensive understanding of DNS hosting and troubleshooting. You can use it as a reference, reading sections as you need them, or read it cover to cover. I've opted for the former and am about half-way through. So, far I've read about things I've never been able to find good information for on the web. Keep up the good work!

By far the best DNS introduction.......2007-08-07

This book is the best investment I have made in my knowledge of DNS. I think any network admin should have this book on their desk at all times. It should become a bed side reading for anybody who is serious about TCP/IP protocols. DNS may be a pretty tricky topic to understand for many people. It uses both TCP and UDP for its queries and gets pretty convoluted as you dive into it. This books demystifies it very well. There is a very clear distinction between zones and domains. I have not seen that many materials clearly explaining the difference between the two. The book gives you a taste of what threats you may face running a DNS server. It explains how to perform zone transfers and zone delegations and clearly defines which suite of protocols is used to accomplish it.
This book can be a reference as well as a textbook read. I recommend it to all people out on the internet.

This is the reference manual for DNS/BIND.......2007-07-09

If you work with DNS/BIND for a living, you either already have this book, or know someone you can borrow it from. It's the one to own.

wordy and confusing.......2007-05-29

If you are running a network on tcp/ip then you need DNS. It does not matter if you are connected to the internet or not. If you are running NT 4.0 and WINS, you still need a DNS server. The whole point to DNS is to provide some type of matching of ip numbers to host names - including routers, printer servers, and switches that support it.

The problem with this book, as with every book I have read where the authors proudly state their grade point average, or how great their employer is, is that the content is designed to be confusing - just like a college book. It's great to waste a lot of time marvelling at how someone read the RFC's and talked to the guys and gals who produced the RFC's and then made a book on it. The first warning came on page 30 "The Whole Enchilada". No this is not a cook book, it is supposed to be on DNS and BIND.

Anyway to make along story short, this book will not tell you, step by step, how to set up a DNS server and what to be aware of. What you have to do is to get a really good distribution such as SUSE 9.0 and later, and experiment. Read this book and make notes and practice and get online help. Also you should get the "samba by example", start at the beginning, and concentrate on chapter 3 where they show you how to configure DNS with particular emphasis on the reverse zone.

Yes, this book is chock-full of good examples, and if you are in charge of a network you really need this book. However, this book is more of a decoding excercie than a learning excercise.

There's a reason this is the DNS bible.......2007-05-09

Anyone running BIND should have this book. It is that important. If you're simply trying to get a resolver for your home, run a private domain with ddns, or be authoritative and exposed to the internet, this book has concrete examples and help for you to do anything. I strongly recommend it.

Average customer rating: Updates are always good. Don't use this book if you are preparing for 70-291. The book for Windows DNS Good review An absolutely painless way to fill your DNS knowledge gap!

DNS on Windows Server 2003 Cricket Liu , Matt Larson , and Robbie Allen Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Windows - General | Operating Systems | Microsoft | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books Networking | Microsoft | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books General | Programming | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books General | Networks, Protocols & APIs | Networking | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books Network Administration | Networking | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books General | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books General | Operating Systems | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books General | Software | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books General | Windows | O'Reilly | By Publisher | Books Windows | Programming | O'Reilly | By Publisher | Books General | Programming | O'Reilly | By Publisher | Books All Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books Computers & Internet | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books Similar Items: Active Directory Cookbook, 2nd Edition Active Directory, 3rd Edition DNS and Bind:3rd Ed Exchange Server Cookbook: For Exchange Server 2003 and Exchange 2000 Server (Cookbook) Windows Server Cookbook for Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 ASIN: 0596005628

Book Description

While computers and other devices identify each other on networks or the Internet by using unique addresses made up of numbers, humans rely on the Domain Name System (DNS), the distributed database that allows us to identify machines by name. DNS does the work of translating domain names into numerical IP addresses, routing mail to its proper destination, and many other services, so that users require little or no knowledge of the system. If you're a network or system administrator, however, configuring, implementing, and maintaining DNS zones can be a formidable challenge. And now, with Windows Server 2003, an understanding of the workings of DNS is even more critical. DNS on Windows Server 20003 is a special Windows-oriented edition of the classic DNS and BIND, updated to document the many changes to DNS, large and small, found in Windows Server 2003. Veteran O'Reilly authors, Cricket Liu, Matt Larson, and Robbie Allen explain the whole system in terms of the new Windows Server 2003, from starting and stopping a DNS service to establishing an organization's namespace in the global hierarchy. Besides covering general issues like installing, setting up, and maintaining the server, DNS on Windows Server 2003 tackles the many issues specific to the new Windows environment, including the use of the dnscmd program to manage the Microsoft DNS Server from the command line and development using the WMI DNS provider to manage the name server programmatically. The book also documents new features of the Microsoft DNS Server in Windows Server 2003, including conditional forwarding and zone storage in Active Directory (AD) application partitions. DNS on Windows Server 2003 provides grounding in:
• Security issues
• System tuning
• Caching
• Zone change notification
• Troubleshooting
• Planning for growth
If you're a Windows administrator, DNS on Windows Server 2003 is the operations manual you need for working with DNS every day. If you're a Windows user who simply wants to take the mystery out of the Internet, this book is a readable introduction to the Internet's architecture and inner workings.

Customer Reviews:

Updates are always good........2007-07-30

I was already fimilar with DNS from the first issues of this book. But this new issue does cover Microsoft DNS which I believe is excellent.

More ISP and System Admins nowadays are reliaing on MS DNS because it comes free with Microsoft Servers, high performance, it has a text based like Unix DNS, it is easy to maintain and the big reason is that it's easy to pass on the DNS responsibilities to any lower cost IT staff.

Don't use this book if you are preparing for 70-291........2007-07-25

I just recently bought this book because of the fine reviews people gave.

The reason i bought this book is to get a clearer understanding of DNS related to Server 2003. I don't want to be a paper MCSE so i look voor as
much study material on the subject where i can get my hands on.
To cut corners if you are studying for the 70-291 please buy this book read it and come back here and tell how much it helped you. For me it was
a waste of money. The info can be obtained by smart Google searches.

That was my oppinion now about the book itself.

It starts very good i have to say with the explaination of DNS in an overview. The book is ok until you are getting at chapter 5 of the 16th chapters.

Chapter 5 is about MX records Exhange etc. The chapter is much to brief in my oppinion arround 9 pages or 4 A4 pages.

Chapter 7 is better but after that downhill. I skipped chapters.

Chapter 15 and 16 are again uphill.

To recap my experiences, the Book starts very promising in the first 4 chapters, they walk you through the installation of some DNS servers, and
the strange thing is they leave that path. The stuf gets boring to read over the chapters that follow and it turns out in a dry textbook.

TO end there is an old saying in Holland perhaps english speakers know it also: 'In the land of the blind one eye is King'. Consultants
are being payed to Design and set up in this case DNS solutions, its like shooting in your own foot to write well written books on those subjects.
And thats the problem, i found the official Microsoft 70-291 and the DNS discussed there of a better quality, a big Shame on you guys!!
Matt Larson, Cricket Liu and Robbie Allen.

The book for Windows DNS.......2007-07-06

I got this book coming from a BIND background and wanting to move to Windows DNS (I do have a valid reason). The first few chapters cover DNS background similar to the BIND book. After that it moves on into how to do things in the Windows world. It uses examples that are straight from the BIND book but done in Windows 2003. There are lots of screen shots and clear explanation. One of the really good things, for those coming from a *nix background, are the chapters on running from a command line and using PERL scripts to manage DNS. Overall it is a great book for anyone running DNS on Windows.

Good review.......2007-02-20

Well written book, it needs to be updated for newer operating systems that are now being used. Good examples and illustrations, the book will be a good review or refresher for those that haven't been around DNS in a while.

An absolutely painless way to fill your DNS knowledge gap!.......2006-10-25

I find O'Reilly books to be like Cisco's or Apple's books, in that they place a value on being readable, witty, and scrupulously technical. You will understand DNS on Win2K3 if you read this book.

Average customer rating: Excellent Book Heavy on ideas, light on implementation You must have one Domain Driven Design The book on domain-driven design

Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software Eric Evans Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley Professional ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Object-Oriented Design | Software Design, Testing & Engineering | Programming | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books Software Development | Software Design, Testing & Engineering | Programming | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books General | Programming | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books Internet | Home Computing | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books | Internet & Education | Online Searching | Web Browsers | Web for Kids Design Tools & Techniques | Software Engineering | Computer Science | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books Systems Analysis & Design | Computer Science | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books General | Computer Science | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books General | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books General | Software | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books All Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books Computers & Internet | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books Similar Items: Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns: With Examples in C# and .NET Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions (The Addison-Wesley Signature Series) Test Driven Development: By Example (The Addison-Wesley Signature Series) ASIN: 0321125215

Customer Reviews:

Excellent Book.......2007-08-28

I really enjoyed reading the book, and I would recommend it to all serious software architects. The book discuss the practical aspects of OO techniques as they apply to real world applications. It goes beyond the "identify the words and nouns" approach of identifying objects and methods, into entities, value objects and aggregates. I also found the book to have a refreshing approach regarding XP methods, and the tight interdependence between modeling and design (and how each one feeds into the other in a closed loop).

Heavy on ideas, light on implementation.......2007-08-22

This book presents some interesting ideas for data modeling and lifecycle management, but does not provide enough implementation details to turn those ideas into reality. Many people are attempting to do so, and their ideas turn up in the dozens with a Google search, but no one seems to have figured out a real-world implementation yet. I may have given this 4 or 5 stars if I was convinced that the ideas were practical. I assume Evans has implemented his own ideas before, so I'm left wondering why he's not sharing the code.

In particular, the Repository and Aggregate patterns interests me, but there are many problems that arise when trying to implement a Repository that can handle saving and updating entire Aggregates while keeping the Entities isolated from the persistence mechanism. This is a topic for a tech blog, and in searching the 'net, plenty of them are discussing it. No one seems to have answered the implementation question, though.

The book is also a bit repetitive and verbose. I didn't find the sections on ubiquitous language very helpful. Engineers and non-engineers don't approach problems the same way, common language or not. I didn't feel that added much to the technical design discussions that followed.

If I ever figure out a practical implementation of the ideas, I may come back and give the book another star.

You must have one.......2007-06-21

This book was produced in 2004 but is already a classic. It is one of the most important books for people interested in object-oriented programming. Every programmer should read it.

Domain Driven Design.......2007-03-15

Domain Driven Design is about naming and assigning responsibilities to your classes according to the real concepts in the real world and let them collaborate with each other to fulfill certain task, like you and your coworkers doing everyday. If you grasp this, your system will be much fun to work with. I have read the book once and I completely agree with what the author said in his book.

If you think it is difficult to understand the book, probably you need some prerequisite, for example, read <