On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 18:15, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
For completeness: there is the BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual, known as the ARM, usually supplied under /usr/share/doc/. And what many consider to be the standard reference, Liu and Albitz's "DNS and BIND" published by O'Reilly. I believe it's up to the 5th edition now; an earlier edition used to be provided online. If you're serious about learning DNS you ought to consider this book.
Learning bind is sort of like learning sendmail though. They both do a million things you'll never need (and if you do you should probably change your design...). The trick - especially when you start with the full references - is to figure out the simple part you need to understand and ignore the rest. And when using distribution-packaged versions, most of what you need is already there.
Most certainly. I think that my major problem is that I tried to "learn BIND" instead of learning how to get it to do the specific thing that I needed it to do. It's like learning the entire Japanese language just to be sure to know how read the bathroom signs on a two-hour stopover in Tokyo.