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DNS & Bind Cookbook

By Cricket Liu
First Edition October 2002
Pages: 240
Series: Cookbooks
ISBN 10: 0-596-00410-9 | ISBN 13: 9780596004101
(Average of 1 Customer Reviews)

Book 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.
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The DNS & BIND Cookbook presents solutions to the many problems faced by network administrators responsible for a name server. Following O'Reilly's popular problem-and-solution cookbook format, 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. It's full of BIND configuration files that you can adapt to your sites requirements. 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. These recipes encompass all the day-to-day tasks you're faced with when managing a name server, and many other tasks you'll face as your site grows. Written by Cricket Liu, a noted authority on DNS, and the author of the bestselling DNS & BIND and DNS on Windows 2000, the DNS & BIND Cookbook belongs in every system or network administrator's library.

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First Edition: October 2002
Series: Cookbooks
ISBN: 0-596-00410-9
Pages: 240
Average Customer Reviews: (Based on 1 Reviews)

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DNS & BIND Cookbook Review, November 22 2002

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Submitted by Chip Mefford [Respond | View]

Bought it last night.

It has already paid for itself.

This is the essential "missing" manual

that fills the gap between what is

so very well covered in the Grasshopper

books and what you are actually trying

to accomplish.

Well done.

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"The 'DNS & Bind Cookbook'...is presented as a series of objectives, divided into themed sections, with brief descriptions of the steps involved in achieving them. Beginning with useful advice on implementing BIND in the first place, the recipes get progressively more sophisticated. There are chapters dealing with zone data, email, Ipv6, logging, and troubleshooting to name a few. Particularly impressive is the coverage of security. Like any Internet program, BIND requires close and careful attention to ensure that vulnerabilities are not inadvertently left unattended to. 'Cookbook' details many key areas of concern, such as concealing the version number, working with a Firewall and protecting against spoofing."--Chris Denton, "Linux Format," March 2003

"I have little to say about 'DNS and BIND Cookbook,' by Cricket Liu, other than that it is a gem. The book is a catechism of most of the questions I've heard about DNS and BIND on Unix and Unix-like operating systems. If you already know the basics of running your own nameserver but get stumped on the advanced stuff like allowing updates, not forwarding certain queries, delegating a subdomain of a reverse-mapping zone, and about 165 other such issues ranging from simple to sublime, this is your book."
--Jack J. Woehr, Dr. Dobbs Journal, March 2003

"This is an absolute 'must have' for administrators of sites constantly in a state of flux."
--Helen McManus, LinuxChix, April 2003
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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, Jan 2003

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