Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 9
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Pros:
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Thorough up-to-date coverage of the subject
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Cons:
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Maybe too much non-essential information
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Continuing their normal high standard, the O'Reilly DNS and BIND book aims at thoroughly covering the subject, including the new features of BIND 9 and sections on troubleshooting and programming.
It starts off with a sizeable non-technical chunk on DNS in the internet and getting a domain name. The meat starts on page 56 where we are taken through setting up a zone step by step. Examples are shown with both full and abbreviated notation and everything is explained clearly.
As well as the setup, managing an ongoing domain is covered, including topics such as managing the transfer of systems to a new subdomain and a lot of information on security.
At 600 pages the book isn't light. The chatty style adds a few of those, as do the extensive apendices.
All round an excellent book for anyone with a reasonable grounding in Unix and networking who wants to know pretty much everything there is to know (from an admin perspective) about DNS and BIND.
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