Press Release
October 10, 2001
Special Edition of DNS and BIND Tackles Windows 2000 Issues
Sebastopol, CA--While computers and other devices identify each other
on networks or the Internet by using unique addresses made up of
numbers, humans rely on the Domain Name System (DNS), the distributed
database that allows us to identify machines by name, such as
www.oreilly.com. DNS works a little like the exchange operator in the
early days of the telephone: the individual placing the call would
speak the name of the exchange, "Pennsylvania 6500" for example, and
the operator at the switchboard would connect the call manually. You
didn't need to know how the system worked to place a call. Similarly
with DNS, users require little or no knowledge of the system. But, for
the system or network administrator, configuring, implementing and
maintaining DNS zones can be a formidable challenge. Now with Windows
2000, an understanding of the workings of DNS has become even more
critical for system administrators, say Matt Larson and Cricket Liu,
coauthors of the new DNS
on Windows 2000 (O'Reilly, US $39.95).
Windows 2000 includes many new DNS bells and whistles, including a
heavier reliance on DNS than any previous version of Windows. The
Active Directory--the major new feature of Windows 2000--is integrated
tightly with DNS. "This book will be especially important as
administrators begin to roll out Windows 2000 in a corporate
environment and find out how much of their implementation depends on a
robust DNS infrastructure," says coauthor Liu. He adds, "This is most
obvious in the naming of Active Directory names: with Windows 2000, all
Active Directory Domain names are DNS domain names but--and this is
important--not every DNS name is an Active Directory name."
According to Larson and Liu, one of the greatest challenges of working
with DNS is the lack of documentation. "The worst problem with DNS is
that despite its widespread use on the Internet, there's really very
little documentation about managing and maintaining it," says Larson.
"This means that the understanding of an enormously important internet
service--one of the linchpins of today's Internet--is either handed
down from administrator to administrator like a closely guarded family
recipe or relearned repeatedly by isolated programmers and engineers.
New zone administrators suffer through the same mistakes made by
countless others."
In the tradition of the bestselling DNS and BIND (Albitz &
Liu,
O'Reilly), DNS on Windows
2000 covers general issues like installing,
setting up, and maintaining the server, then focuses on issues specific
to the Windows 2000 environment: integration between DNS and Active
Directory, converting from BIND to the Microsoft DNS Server and
Registry settings. It pays special attention to security issues, system
tuning, caching, and zone change notification. It also covers issues
such as troubleshooting and planning for growth.
DNS on Windows 2000 is intended primarily for Windows 2000 system
administrators who manage zones and one or more name servers. It also
includes material for network engineers, postmasters, and others. This
book provides essential knowledge about DNS for all readers, whether
they are administrators involved with DNS on a daily basis or users who
wants to be more informed about the Internet and how it works.
What the critics said about the first edition, DNS on Windows
NT:
"This fine volume should have a special place in the bookshelf of every
webmaster with a Windows-based Web server. This is a comprehensive and
highly comprehensible book on what can be a complex and confusing
subject. Highly recommended."
--amazon.co.uk
"The majority of this excellent publication shows you how to acquire
DNS software, and it leads you through installation and configuration
requirements. From administrative duties to advanced features, you
review monitoring and troubleshooting in a deployed DNS
system."
--Fatbrain.com
"This book provides a well laid out overview of DNS and focuses on how
it behaves on Windows NT. DNS on Windows NT walks you through the
whole process from buying a domain name to setting up a Windows NT DNS
server and adding all appropriate records. This book makes an excellent
desktop reference."
--www.mcseguide.com, March 2000
"The way I introduce this book in my classes now goes something like
this: '...here is a book you don't need to check out; you just need to
buy it--immediately...'"
--Ron Reck, MSCE/MCT, Quickstart Technologies, San Francisco
Online Resources:
DNS on Windows
2000
By Matt Larson & Cricket Liu
Second Edition, September 2001
ISBN 0-596-00230-0, 334 pages, $39.95 (US)
order@oreilly.com
1-800-998-9938
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