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The Concise Guide to DNS and BIND provides you with the technical depth and expert-level information you need to understand and administer DNS and BIND. Domain Name System (DNS) is a distributed Internet directory service. It is used mainly to translate between domain names and IP addresses, and to control Internet email delivery. Most Internet services rely on DNS to work, and if DNS fails, Web sites cannot be located and email delivery stalls. BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Daemon) is an implementation of the Domain Name System (DNS) protocols. This book covers setting up a DNS server and client, DNS domain zones, compiling and configuring BIND, dial-up connections, adding more domains, setting up root servers on private networks, firewall rules, Dynamic DNS (DDNS), subdomains and delegation, caching and name resolution, troubleshooting tools and techniques, debugging and logging, new features in BIND 8.2.2, and it offers introductory information on BIND 9.
From the Author
This is The book you want about DNS ;-)I've maintained the LDP DNS-HOWTO since 1995 and I've received a lot of questions from the readers as well as seeing what people on USENET ask about DNS. I think I may have understood how DNS should be explained. The book starts by presenting the basic and obligatory pieces of DNS in a coherent and integrated way, and then goes on to add more advanced things around that. Hopefully this will result in a better learning curve than some of the other DNS books out there.
I'd like to hear how you liked the book, please e-mail me, though I cannot promise to answer right away.
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