Telecom/1996-04-telecom-walnutcreek.iso/book.reviews/DNS.and.BIND-albitz

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Date: Mon, 06 Mar 1995 15:26:14 EST
From: Rob Slade <[e-mail]>
Subject: Book Review: "DNS and BIND" by Albitz/Liu


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"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: [phone] [e-mail] or [e-mail]
%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.


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