DNS & BIND Cookbook

• 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

The DNS & BIND cook book coupled with the BIND book are truly the BIND bibles.


Magic bullet for quick DNS fixes/receipies   May 13, 2005
Ubiquitous Geebles (US)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

If you need to understand the difference between BIND 9 or Windows AD DNS and BIND 8, this is not the book for you. But if your management decides to tell you about the imporant new product launch on 20 servers in a new domain they just bought and kept under wraps to stun the competition which they need implemented in some novel way that requires a DNS twist, THIS will save you.
It will also save you if you are really a Windows admin, but you need to configure something in BIND. Or if you need to do something in BIND that you haven't done before.
Or if you don't care WHY you have to do task X, Y and then Z to get the desired result, but you need to know HOW? This is your book.

The WHY is in the BIND book from O'Reilly.


Excellent   October 23, 2006
orangekay (San Francisco, CA United States)
I can't think of anything negative to say about this book. It's certainly not an outright replacement for its bigger cousin "DNS & BIND", but it is clearly written and well-organized; an excellent "how-to" resource to get you up and running quickly with a minimum of fuss and background theory. I'd like to see an updated version which covers DNS-SD in the near future.


A NICE PROBLEM-SOLVING ORIENTATION   February 9, 2003
reviewer (Zurich, Switzerland.)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

"DNS & BIND Cookbook" is a problem-solving text, which Network Administrators will be glad to read. It displayed utmost rationality in its simple and concise way of dealing with most problems, which arise from Domain Name Systems. It also exposed all the factors, which are likely to escalate Berkeley Internet Name Domain problems, before providing their remedies in a clear sequential order.
Net Administrators (as well as voracious users of any of the major Operating Systems) would appreciate the inclusion of an easy-to-digest chapter on Internet Protocol version 6, (IPv6). This book clearly made the mark!
Apart from the rather summarized information, which I noticed on two of its chapters, (i.e.: 'Create Zone Files For Your Domains' and 'Use Increment Transfer'), there is nothing that I will hold against this book. Cricket Liu did a very good job in writing it.