[Gllug] free books

[John Edwards]

On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 09:16:48PM +0000, Ian Northeast wrote:
> SteveC wrote:
> > 
> > O'Reilly - DNS & BIND 2nd edition
> 
> That is *seriously* old. It's on the 4th edition ATM. I really couldn't
> recommend this book to anyone.
> 
> The others are probably fine, I wouldn't know. But I would not want to
> see anyone trying to configure a nameserver based on DNS&bind E2. There
> are already enough clueless people out there trying to run nameservers,
> we don't need more.
> 
> Throw it away please Steve!
> 
> It was of course a fine book in its time, and it taught me lots. But its
> time has long passed.
> 
> Regards, Ian

Surely any chapters on DNS theory would still be sound ? And new topics 
such as IP6 and DNSsec might not be needed in a simple installation of 
BIND. Some of this is covered in the security chapter from the 4th ed:
	http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/dns4/chapter/ch11.html

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