Cricket Liu

A long time ago I managed some zones on a couple Bind 9 servers for work. I was also known to buy a lot of the O'Reilly Cookbook books. I never found myself really referencing the DNS & Bind Cookbook all that much, unlike some others I made use of. To be fair, I feel that if I needed to truly look up how to do something, I'd use DNS & Bind instead (a book I made much more use of when I was first learning how to manage a DNS server). I thought I'd read this one through, and though dated, it show more still has all the feel of any of the other Cookbook books, I personally just found it not as useful, hence the lower rating.

(On a side note, I did discover in Chapter 10 a way to potentially solve a DNS issue I currently have concerning the ISP that maintains the zone for our organization). show less

This might have been the second O'Reilly book I ever read. I was making my way, breaking my teeth, in my Information Technology career. When I read this book, I did not understand a damn thing! That is not to say the book is bad. In fact, the guys I worked for recommended it, and they knew this stuff backwards, forwards, sideways, and every which way. So, as I said, the fact that I did not understand it does not reflect on the book.

An excellent reference on the Domain Name System but the writing can be a bit dense at times.

Great example of the best of the O'Reilly tech books. This is actually the most-used work on my bookshelf, though mostly for the table in the back telling what country controls the top-level domains (so I know where my spam is coming from ;-)