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By Matt Larson, Cricket Liu
Second Edition
September 2001
Pages: 352
ISBN 10: 0-596-00230-0 |
ISBN 13: 9780596002305
(Average of 1 Customer Reviews)
This special Windows-oriented edition of the classic DNS and BIND is a guide to one of the Internet's fundamental building blocks: the distributed host information database responsible for translating names into addresses, routing mail, and many other services. Covers server setup and maintenance along with Windows-specific topics like integration between DNS and Active Directory, conversion from BIND to the Microsoft DNS server, and registry settings.
Full Description
- Security issues
- System tuning
- Caching
- Zone change notification
- Troubleshooting
- Planning for growth
- 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
- Integrating Active Directory with DNS
- Dynamic updates, storing zone information in Active Directory, and incremental zone transfers
- Using MX records to route mail
- Configuring hosts to use name servers
- Subdividing domains (parenting)
- Securing your name server: preventing unauthorized zone transfers
- Mapping one name to several servers for load sharing
- Troubleshooting: using nslookup, diagnosing common problems
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Book details
Second Edition: September 2001
ISBN: 0-596-00230-0
Pages: 352
Average Customer Reviews: (Based on 1 Reviews)
Featured customer reviews
DNS on Windows 2000 Review, February 13 2002
This book helped me to link the missing links I had on DNS. None of MS Press booked provided me with the fine details this book has provided with.
Also this book has much better signal to noise ration than a lot of books available in the market.
I will recommend this book to anybody who manages a DNS server on Windows 2000 or NT.
Media reviews
"If you are a system administrator and you need to brush up on DNS basics, or if you have a Unix background and need to implement DNS on a Windows 2000 network, it's hard to go wrong with this book."
--Keith Schengili-Roberts, The Computer Paper, May 2002
"The Bottom Line--If you are responsible for DNS in your Windows 2000 network, you need this book. 'DNS on Windows 2000' is perfect if you're responsible for the care and feeding of DNS in a Win2K environment. Five stars."
--Douglas Luden, Focus on Windows
"If you're working with Windows 2000, this a provides essential coverage of the Windows specific tools and techniques, as well as features such as Active Directory."
--Andrew Ward, Computer Shopper, Feb 2002
Reviews From First Edition:
"This fine volume should have a special place in the bookshelf of every webmaster with a Windows-based Web server. This is a comprehensive and highly comprehensible book on what can be a complex and confusing subject. Highly recommended."
--amazon.co.uk
"The majority of this excellent publication shows you how to acquire DNS software, and it leads you through installation and configuration requirements. From administrative duties to advanced features, you review monitoring and troubleshooting in a deployed DNS system."
--Fatbrain.com
"This book provides a well laid out overview of DNS and focuses on how it behaves on Windows NT. 'DNS on Windows NT' walks you through the whole process from buying a domain name to setting up a windows NT DNS server and adding all appropriate records. This book makes an excellent desktop reference."
--www.mcseguide.com, March 2000
"The way I introduce this book in my classes now goes something like this: ...here is a book you don't need to check out; you just need to buy it--immediately..."
--Ron Reck MSCE/MCT, Quickstart Technologies, San Francisco
