SUMMARY: Aarrgh. Need help with DNS.

From: dsf@interpath.com
Date: Tue Feb 11 1997 - 22:23:33 CST


Thank you for all the responses...

Kenny Elliott <kenny@wild.net>
"Christopher L. Barnard" <cbar44@tsg.cbot.com>
Reto Lichtensteiger <rali@meitca.com>
fpardo@tisny.com (Frank Pardo)
Ernest Bowman-Cisneros <ebc@phy.duke.edu>
"Berube, Rick" <reberube@tva.gov>
Dan Pritts <danno@aa.fv.com>
Jim Harmon <jim@telecnnct.com>
twhite@Bear.COM (Thomas White)
David Schiffrin <daves@adnc.com>
celeste@celestial.stokely.com (Celeste Stokely)
"Mike D. Kail" <mdkail@fv.com>
Rafael Napoles Rodriguez <rnapoles@reduno.com.mx>
Victor Larranaga <vic@campus.cem.itesm.mx>
Jay Lessert <jayl@latticesemi.com>
vasu@center.oaep.go.th (Vasu Srisanan)

Some of the sites and books suggested:

Sites:
        http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/LDP/nag/node80.html#SECTION008000000
        http://www.dns.net/dnsrd/
        http://www.ludd.luth.se/~kavli/BIND-FAQ.html
        http://info-sys.home.vix.com/isc/bind/index.html

Books:
        Analyzing Sun Networks
        Carl Malamud
        Van Nostrand Reinhold
        ISBN 0-442-01332-9

        Unix System Administration Handbook (2nd edition)
        Evi Nemeth et al.
        Prentice Hall
        ISBN 0-13-151051-7

And almost everyone suggested this one:
        DNS And BIND
        P. Albitz & C. Liu
        O'Reilly & Assoc.
        ISBN 1-56592-010-4
Thanks for the help. Looks like I will take everyone's advice and buy the
O'Reilly book.

Dan Freedman

Original question:
>
>Sun M's-
>
>I am trying to set up a Self Contained Domain and was wondering if anyone
>knew of any good sources of information on this topic. I plan on setting up
>a root server, a primary server, and a secondary. The root will be a
>Solaris 2.5.1 x86 box. The primary and secondaries will be Sparc Solaris
>2.4 and/or a Windows NT box. Basically I'm looking for any documentation
>which you have found useful. I've already tried man pages and SunService
>Tip Sheet for Sun DNS. They have helped a little, but I'm still stuck.
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Dan Freedman
>
>



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