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DNS and BIND, 5th Edition View Larger Image | Cricket Liu, Paul Albitz
O'Reilly Media, Paperback, 5th edition, Published May 2006, 640 pages, ISBN 0596100574 | List Price: $49.99
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DNS and BIND tells you everything you need to work with one of the Internet's
fundamental building blocks: the distributed host information database that's
responsible for translating names into addresses, routing mail to its proper
destination, and even listing phone numbers with the new ENUM standard. This
book brings you up-to-date with the latest changes in this crucial service.
The fifth edition covers BIND 9.3.2, the most recent release of the BIND 9
series, as well as BIND 8.4.7. BIND 9.3.2 contains further improvements in security
and IPv6 support, and important new features such as internationalized domain
names, ENUM (electronic numbering), and SPF (the Sender Policy Framework).
Whether you're an administrator involved with DNS on a daily basis or a user
who wants to be more informed about the Internet and how it works, you'll find
that this book is essential reading.
Topics include:
- 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
- Using MX records to route mail
- Configuring hosts to use DNS name servers
- Subdividing domains (parenting)
- Securing your name server: restricting who can query your server, preventing
unauthorized zone transfers, avoiding bogus servers, etc.
- The DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) and Transaction Signatures (TSIG)
- Mapping one name to several servers for load sharing
- Dynamic updates, asynchronous notification of change to a zone, and incremental
zone transfers
- Troubleshooting: using nslookup and dig, reading debugging output, common
problems
- DNS programming using the resolver library and Perl's Net::DNS module
About the Authors
Paul Albitz is a software engineer at Hewlett-Packard. Paul earned a
Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse, and a
Master of Science degree from Purdue University. Paul worked on BIND for the
HP-UX 7.0 and 8.0 releases. During this time Paul developed the tools used to
run the hp.com domain. More recently he has been involved in networking HP's
DesignJet plotter. Before joining HP, Paul was a system administrator in the
CS Department of Purdue University. As system administrator, Paul ran versions
of BIND before BIND's initial release with 4.3 BSD. Paul and his wife Katherine
live in San Diego, CA.
Cricket Liu matriculated at the University of California's Berkeley
campus, that great bastion of free speech, unencumbered Unix, and cheap pizza.
He joined Hewlett-Packard after graduation and worked for HP for nine years.
Cricket began managing the hp.com zone after the Loma Prieta earthquake forcibly
transferred the zone's management from HP Labs to HP's Corporate Offices (by
cracking a sprinkler main and flooding Labs' computer room). Cricket was hostmaster@hp.com
for over three years, and then joined HP's Professional Services Organization
to cofound HP's Internet Consulting Program. Cricket left HP in 1997 to form
Acme Byte & Wire, a DNS consulting and training company, with his friend
(and now co-author) Matt Larson. Network Solutions acquired Acme in June 2000,
and later the same day merged with VeriSign. Cricket worked for a year as Director
of DNS Product Management for VeriSign Global Registry Services. Cricket joined
Men & Mice, an Icelandic company specializing in DNS software and services,
in September, 2001. He is currently their Vice President, Research & Development.
Cricket, his wife, Paige, and their son, Walt, live in Colorado with two Siberian
Huskies, Annie and Dakota. On warm weekend afternoons, you'll probably find
them on the flying trapeze or wakeboarding behind Betty Blue.
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