This is a detailed guide to the Domain Name System, its implementation, configuration, and administration. It covers the basics as well as the more advanced features and uses of DNS. This book is for system administrators and network architects who need to learn how to run and configure DNS servers. A working knowledge of TCP/IP protocols is presumed.
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Libor Dost¿lek was born in 1957 in Prague, Europe. He graduated in mathematics at the Charles University in Prague. Since last 20 years he has been involved in ICT architecture and security. His experiences as the IT architect and the hostmaster of one of the first European Internet Service Providers have been used while writing this publication. Later he became an IT architect of one of the first home banking applications fully based on the PKI architecture, and also an IT architect of one of the first GSM banking applications (mobile banking). As a head consultant, he designed the architecture of several European public certification service providers (certification authorities) and also many e-commerce and e-banking applications. The public knows him either as an author of many publications about TCP/IP and security or as a teacher. He taught at various schools as well as held various commercial courses. At present, he lectures on Cryptology at the Charles University in Prague. Nowadays, he is an employee of Siemens.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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Sloppy translation from Czech book, dangerously out-of-date,
This review is from: DNS in Action: A detailed and practical guide to DNS implementation, configuration, and administration (Paperback)
According to the title page of this book, it is an English translation
of a Czech book (ISBN 80-722-6675-6) published in 2003, apparently from a manuscript completed in 2001 (based on the dates used in the examples). The content has not been appreciably updated, if it's been updated at all. For example, in Section 3.5.1 and 3.5.2, the book discusses AAAA and A6 resource records, noting "The use of the AAAA record will not prevail in the future, though". However, the IETF moved the A6 record to EXPERIMENTAL status in 2001 (!), effectively deprecating it in favor of AAAA. In fact, the book is dangerously out-of-date, as it has an extensive treatment of BIND 4 without anywhere noting that the ISC -- the maintainer of BIND -- deprecated BIND 4 in 1997. (BIND 4 is now widely regarded as unsafe for use in a production environment.) The woefully dated content isn't the only problem. The translation from Czech is sloppy, with many typographical errors and awkward sentences. There are many artifacts from what was presumably initially a machine translation. There are also quite a few minor inaccuracies, and negligible coverage of security issues (other than a section on an obsoleted version DNSSEC). In short, I cannot warn strongly enough against this book. It's inadequate, even as a primer. I would recommend one of these immeasurably better books on DNS for anyone at any level seeking to learn more about DNS: - Pro DNS and BIND, by Ron Aitchison (ISBN 1590594940) - DNS and BIND (5th Edition), by Cricket Liu and Paul Albitz (ISBN 0596100574)
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DNSSEC section is out of date,
By John Dickinson (Oxford UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: DNS in Action: A detailed and practical guide to DNS implementation, configuration, and administration (Paperback)
When I got this book I flicked to the section on DNSSEC in order to see how up to date this book is. I was horrified to see that the whole section is based on RFC 2535. This is now obsolete and has been replaced by RFC's 4033, 4034 and 4035. These new RFC's had been out for a year by the time this book was published.
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name server implementation, additional records, bits set, resource records, last updated date, registration date, question type, nsl ookup program, nonauthoritative data, rndc program, forwarder server, secondary name server, primary name server, stub resolver, additional data section, root name servers, own name server, subordinate zone, default value for this parameter, slave server, authoritative section, authoritative name server, closed intranet, standard query response, other name servers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Active Directory, Internet Protocol, Dst Port, Domain Name System, Company Ltd, Statement Syntax, Src Port, Name Server Count, Answer Entry Count, Question Entry Count, Query Identifier, Standard Query, Host Addr, User Datagram Protocol, Std Qry, Fri Jun, Internet Registry, Network Monitor, Fri Feb, Event Logging, Russian Federation Postal, Internet Service Provider, Moscow Country, Question Name, Default Server Browse Sample Pages:
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name server implementation, additional records, bits set, resource records, last updated date, registration date, question type, nsl ookup program, nonauthoritative data, rndc program, forwarder server, secondary name server, primary name server, stub resolver, additional data section, root name servers, own name server, subordinate zone, default value for this parameter, slave server, authoritative section, authoritative name server, closed intranet, standard query response, other name servers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Active Directory, Internet Protocol, Dst Port, Domain Name System, Company Ltd, Statement Syntax, Src Port, Name Server Count, Answer Entry Count, Question Entry Count, Query Identifier, Standard Query, Host Addr, User Datagram Protocol, Std Qry, Fri Jun, Internet Registry, Network Monitor, Fri Feb, Event Logging, Russian Federation Postal, Internet Service Provider, Moscow Country, Question Name, Default Server Browse Sample Pages:
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