DNS & BIND (O'Reilly book)

[Jason Richards]

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