DNS & BIND (O'Reilly book)

[Kevin Darcy]

Does it cover BIND 9.1? Has the book's ink dried yet ? :-)


- Kevin


Smith, William E., Jr. wrote:

> I have a book, "THe concise guide to DNS & BIND" that covers BIND 9 in some
> depth.  Publisher is QUE.  Author is Nicolai Langfeldt.
>
> Bill
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Richards [mailto:jrichards at gci.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 11:14 AM
> To: 'Studio 51'
> Cc: 'bind-users at isc.org'
> Subject: RE: DNS & BIND (O'Reilly book)
>
> They don't have revision 4 listed on the upcoming titles, so here's what I
> would do.  Buy the O'Reilly DNS & BIND rev.3 and download the Bind 9
> Administrator Reference Manual (from isc.org, or nominum.com, can't remember
> which.)  Those in conjunction with doc/misc/* under the src of bind 9 should
> get you started.  The only book I've found with BIND 9 information in it is
> the "Unix System Administration Handbook" 3rd edition, released last year.
> It talks about bind 9, but some of the details are sketching, nonetheless it
> has been helpful to me.
>
> Good luck,
> Jason
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Studio 51 [mailto:leekembel at hotmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 5:30 AM
> To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
> Subject: DNS & BIND (O'Reilly book)
>
> OK, my knowledge of DNS is a bit fuzzy and I want to try setting up my own
> DNS server.
>
> Being reasonably intelligent, and aware of how poorly documented OSS usually
> is, I decided to buy the oft-praised book "DNS & BIND" from O'Reilly press.
> So I go to amazon.com and find the book, and realize the latest version it
> covers is BIND 8. So I investigate and find that BIND 9 was released less
> than a week ago. It seems I have poor timing, now, my question:
>
> Should I buy the book that only covers V8, or should I wait till they
> publish something that covers V9? Is there already a version that covers V9?
> If so, where can I get it? If not, how long will it take for V9 to be
> realeased (the book)? Is there REALLY going to be that much difference, or
> should I not worry about it and just settle for a book on V8 while I'm using
> V9?
>
> Thanks!
>
> LKembel