DNS & BIND Cookbook (Paperback)

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"I really tried hard to think of something the book should cover that was not already in between the covers, and other than really esoteric stuff, I failed. This is a book for novice and expert alike, and really does make an essential desktop reference for all those creating, modifying or supporting zone files." Raza Rizvi, news@UK "Verdict - Not quite everything there is to know about running BIND, but pretty close - 9/10" - Chris Denton, Linuxformat, March 2003 The book is slim, handy and so full of excellent advice that within a day of my picking it up I had (using the information in it) upgraded a number of BIND servers from v8 to v9 with almost no outage, implementing the new ?rndc? application in the process. I had also implemented dynamically updating sub-domains for containing SVR records for my employer?s new Windows Server 2003 Active Directory domain. Not a bad advert for an extremely useful book!? ? Steven-Ashley Woltering, Ping Dec/Jan

Product Description

The DNS & BIND Cookbook presents solutions to the many problems faced by network administrators responsible for a name server. 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. With the wide range of recipes in this book, you'll be able to

• Check whether a name is registered
• Register your domain name and name servers
• Create zone files for your domains
• Protect your name server from abuse
• Set up back-up mail servers and virtual email addresses
• Delegate subdomains and check delegation
• Use incremental transfer
• Secure zone transfers
• Restrict which queries a server will answer
• Upgrade to BIND 9 from earlier version
• Perform logging and troubleshooting
• Use IPv6

and much more.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1st edition (October 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0596004109
• ISBN-13: 978-0596004101
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #308,736 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A 'MUST HAVE' for new DNS Administrators, March 28, 2003

By	"dedetmer" (Madison, AL United States) - See all my reviews

This book has turned out to be the best investment I've made so far in my 20 year IT career. I've always trusted O'Reilly books for their detailed accuracy. 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.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful companion to the BIND book, October 30, 2002

By	Andrew P. Kaplan "noc568" (Madison, CT USA) - See all my reviews

Like the BIND book, the DNS and BIND cookbook is an invaluable reference for any DNS/Email/Web admin. This book answers many of the questions raised in the BIND book through numerous illuminating illustrations. It explains the differences between BIND 4, 8 and 9. Plus there's a great section on email and even IPv6

The DNS & BIND cook book coupled with the BIND book are truly the BIND bibles.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Magic bullet for quick DNS fixes/receipies, May 13, 2005

By	Ubiquitous Geebles (US) - See all my reviews

If you need to understand the difference between BIND 9 or Windows AD DNS and BIND 8, this is not the book for you. 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.
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.