Where to start learning about DNS?

[Robert Annandale]

I found O'Reilly's 'DNS and BIND' 3rd Edition by Albitz and Liu to be great.
The ISBN is 1-56592-512-2

For Red Hat Linux a reasonably good resource is 'Red Hat Linux 6 Server'
by Mohammed Kabrl.  ISBN is 0-7645-3337-1.  There is an entire chapter
dedicated to configuring DNS on Red Hat machines.

Man pages are always very handy.

So are the SCO documentation resources, usually available on port 457
of a configured server... The Network Documentation is pretty handy.

This newsgroup is pretty handy too.
Read all the postings everyday and understand the solutions you were baffled
by.

RBA


> I'd like to know where to start! Any good ideas?
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> I'm in a company currently using FreeBSD with Bind 4, but will be going to
> Bind 8.
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> I would like to find the standards (if there are such) of naming
conventions
> with CNAME's, A records, expiration and refresh settings, etc.
>
> I want to end up with a firm working knowledge of DNS and Bind, to the
point
> where I can set up a spare box running Red Hat Linux or FreeBSD and build
a
> working, efficient nameserver within a couple of weeks. Doing is learning,
> right?
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> I've been impressed with O'Reilly's Perl books, and will very likely
> purchase their DNS/Bind book(s). Any other good ones I should go for?
> Websites? Newsgroup posters willing to teach me for an hour a night for a
> six-pack? :-)
>
> I appreciate any info, even marginally related to the subject at hand.
>
> Thank you!
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