On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 18:15, Les Mikesell <lesmikes...@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. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
