Managing Mission-Critical Domains and DNS

Très instructif

I learned from this book. I use it. Its a gem; a learning tool. I recommend it. Period. Derick Harris.

This is a great book - it's just not the book I expected. I was looking for a book to introduce me to how DNS works, and how to implement it in my own small office network and web app projects.This book is NOT that – rather, it's primarily written for I.T. pros who are managing very large network infrastructure (i.e. enterprise platforms, massive web services, etc.), and thus have to understand and manage DNS operations for many thousands of web domains.Oddly, it's actually 2 different books in 1. The first 4 chapters cover registration and management of domain names – and these are actually quite easily digestibly, and relevant to almost anyone who owns even a couple domain names.Starting from chapter 5, tho, it dives into the deep nuts and bolts of managing a DNS infrastructure, at enterprise scale. I'm technical enough that I was able to plod my way to the end, but 50% of it was either over my head or will never apply to me in any real way. I'm glad I read it, and I did learn a lot – but I should have read a few other books on DNS first.My only complaint is that given who the target audience is, the author makes a bunch of assumptions about your level of background and experience, and thus uses a lot of jargon and technical terms (ex: "in-bailiwick" ...huh?), and neglects to define or explain many technical details that I gathered (by the time I reached the end) are basic aspects of running DNS (most glaringly, "zones." I've encountered zones when managing my domains at my registrar, but I still don't actually know what they really are - or what zone records / files are - and this book assumes you know those things and references them throughout, without explaining them in any way).Bottom line, it's a really great book, and will teach anyone who reads it a lot, but it should definitely NOT be your first book to try to learn how DNS works. Don't make the same mistake I did. ;-)

Fit my need for a desk reference perfectly.

This book run through a bunch topics revolving around DNS. The explanation are at a high level complete. It is missing more in depth examinations and detailed explanations. DNS is a fairly complicated topic to explain. But I do believe the writer could of dome a little better. But there is no question is very well acquainted with DNS.