Date: Mon, 06 Mar 1995 15:26:14 EST From: "Rob Slade, Social Convener to the Net" Subject: "DNS and BIND" by Albitz/Liu BKDNSBND.RVW 950131 "DNS and BIND", Paul Albitz/Cricket Liu, 1992, 1-56592-010-4 %A Paul Albitz %A Cricket Liu %C 103 Morris Street, Suite A, Sebastopol, CA 95472 %D 1992 %G 1-56592-010-4 %I O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. %O 800-998-9938 707-829-0515 fax: 707-829-0104 info@ora.com or nuts@ora.com %P 381 %T "DNS and BIND" Of the millions of users on the Internet, almost all are blissfully unaware of the complexity and magnitude of the task of network routing. How does the network know where to deliver a piece of email? In fact, given the packet nature of all Internet traffic, how do telnet or ftp packets get, reliably and generally quickly, to their destination? Few even recognize the term DNS, the Domain Name Service, which handles the problem. Administrators may have used BIND, the Berkeley Internet Name Domain program, to manage DNS, but may not fully understand the importance, use or finer aspects of it. This book gives both background and operational details. Given the nature of the netowrk routing problem, a full understanding of DNS likely requires actual hands-on work. Albitz and Liu have, however, put together clear, straightforward, and sometimes even lighthearted text to make the learning process as painless as possible. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1995 BKDNSBND.RVW 950131 ============= Vancouver ROBERTS@decus.ca | Lotteries are a tax Institute for Robert_Slade@sfu.ca | on the arithmetically Research into rslade@cue.bc.ca | impaired. User p1@CyberStore.ca | Security Canada V7K 2G6 |