Linux Network Servers 24 Seven (Paperback)

by Craig Hunt (Author)

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Amazon.com Review
Everyone seems eager to give Linux a shakedown, so publishers have saturated the marketplace with books about installing and initially configuring the operating system. Most of them, however, give only cursory coverage to the software you can run under Linux. Linux Network Servers: 24 Seven does an outstanding job of explaining how to turn a machine running Linux 2.2 (it doesn't pay much attention to the differences among distributions) into a reliable, high-performance provider of network services. You'll learn how to install most any service you could want, including the Web, FTP, e-mail, DNS, printer sharing, and file sharing.

Though this book deals with powerful software, it doesn't assume too much Linux expertise. If you've installed Linux, gotten it to work properly, and played with it a bit, you'll follow along comfortably. The standard approach is an explanation of what a particular service is and which pieces of software implement it, and then a walk through the configuration of one of them. You'll find out what goes into the various configuration files (listing options, where appropriate) and about the behavior of key administration commands. This book will help you build a fire-and-forget network server on the Linux platform. --David Wall

Topics covered: Installing and maintaining reliable, high-performance network servers under the Linux 2.2 operating system. Servers include pppd for PPP service, Apache for Web operations, Berkeley Internet Name Domain 8 (BIND 8) for Domain Name System (DNS) service, sendmail for mail routing, Samba for integration of heterogeneous machines on a network, and the miscellaneous services of the Internet daemon (inetd). There's coverage of Network File System (NFS) and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) servers too.

Product Description
Linux Networking 24x7 is the definitive administrator's guide to Linux, the operating-system success story of the 1990s. Starting where most Linux books end, this book assumes that readers need to take their knowledge of Linux to the next level. Noted TCP/IP and Linux expert Craig Hunt focuses on the challenges that network administrators face in providing continuous uptime on Linux servers, maximizing throughput, and delivering rock-solid performance on affordable equipment.

Product Details

• Paperback: 626 pages
• Publisher: Sybex Inc; 1st edition (September 15, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0782125069
• ISBN-13: 978-0782125061
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.6 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,825,429 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant for aspirant Linux server builder, December 14, 1999

By	[e-mail] (South Africa) - See all my reviews

For all of you out there like me who have read how to install Linux so many times, but are still confused about the step-by-step how (and why) processes for setting up a DNS server, or a mail server using sendmail, or a samba server, etc... this book is great. The author gives clear examples, and good advice. The book is easy to read, and should be one of your first buys if you are setting up a server. The author spends a lot of time on RedHat and Caldera, with many graphics illustrating the screens you would expect to see.

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Yes! I've found it, January 27, 2000

By	TVNshack (Provence) - See all my reviews

Yes, this time I've found *the* good book on Linux. I'm a sysadmin. I know how to get the most of a Linux box. But I was always seeking for *the* book that will bring it all under my eyes. Check this: sendmail's rulesets explained in clear language. Conversion from BIND 4 to 8. Apache admin tricks. Netstat -a explained in clear. Configuring a POP/IMAP server. Lilo in detail. It'll help everybody: the newbie and the close-to-know-it-all. And it's not one of these fake RH6.1 updated books where only the cover tells about RH6.1 and the content never talks about what's to be known. Great concise book.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Number 1 for a Reason!, July 27, 2000

By A Customer

Finding a good Linux book ain't easy. When I saw the June issue of Sys Admin magazine call Linux Network Servers "an excellent guide", "a superb reference" and "an outstanding book", I thought I'd check it out. Researching the book I found that no less of an authority than Allan Cox, the guy that Linux Journal called "the Linux community's very own Mr. Wizard", said it was the system administration reference he would recommend. After all that, I had to give the book a try. I'm glad I did. This book has the details about everything I needed to get a Linux network server running. It covers configuration and management of all the network protocols: telnet, rlogin, ftp, DNS, sendmail, Apache, routing, DHCP, NFS, Samba, lpd, POP and IMAP. It covers all of the configuration files. Describes them in detail and shows how they can be directly maintained with an editor and indirectly maintained with Linux GUI tools. Unlike some know-it-alls who want to tell you there is only one way to do something, this book gives all the options and lets you choose which one is right for you. I like that. This book doesn't treat me like an idiot. It doesn't say simply "do it this way". Instead it says why things are done, describes the tools available to do it and let's me decide when and how to do the thing. A little bit of respect for a change!

Amazon customers aren't fools. They have made this the number 1 best selling book in the Linux network & system administration category. It is easy to see why. It is the best Linux system administration book out there.