DNS and BIND: Photocopy Edition

Author: GricketLiu Paul Albitz
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Publish Date: 2002-12-01
Features: This book discusses one of the fundamental construction modules of the Internet, the distributed host information database, which is responsible for converting names into addresses, routing emails to the correct destination, and providing many other services. As the authors stated in the preface, if you are using the Internet, you have already used DNS, even if you are not yet familiar with it. The new fourth edition covers both BIND9 and BIND8, as BIND has implemented many important new features. BIND8 is the foundation for many current commercial products. BIND8 and BIND9 have greatly improved the security of DNS. This book discusses one of the fundamental construction modules of the Internet, the distributed host information database, which is responsible for converting names into addresses, routing emails to the correct destination, and providing many other services. As the authors stated in the preface, if you are using the Internet, you have already used DNS, even if you are not yet familiar with it. The new fourth edition covers both BIND9 and BIND8, as BIND has implemented many important new features. BIND8 is the foundation for many current commercial products. BIND8 and BIND9 have greatly improved the security of DNS. Whether you are a system administrator who uses DNS daily or an ordinary user who wants to delve deeper into the Internet and its working principles, this book is worth reading.