From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 6 20:30:27 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id UAA03782 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 6 Aug 1995 20:30:27 -0700 Received: from distortion.eng.umd.edu (distortion.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.6]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA03762 for ; Sun, 6 Aug 1995 20:30:23 -0700 Received: from mocha.eng.umd.edu (mocha.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.16]) by distortion.eng.umd.edu (8.6.10/8.6.4) with ESMTP id XAA05191; Sun, 6 Aug 1995 23:29:45 -0400 Received: (chuckr@localhost) by mocha.eng.umd.edu (8.6.10/8.6.4) id XAA04440; Sun, 6 Aug 1995 23:29:45 -0400 Date: Sun, 6 Aug 1995 23:29:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: -Vince- cc: Gary Palmer , Michael Smith , FreeBSD-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Some questions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 6 Aug 1995, -Vince- wrote: > On Sun, 6 Aug 1995, Gary Palmer wrote: > > > In message <199508061441.AAA20812@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, Michael Smith > > writes: > > >-Vince- stands accused of saying: > > >> I bought it for $29.95, how does the DNS and Bind differ from > > >> their TCP/IP book? > > > > >Well, the DNS and Bind book talks about DNS and Bind, and the TCP/IP book > > >covers lots of things, starting with the protocols & working up from > > >there. From the blurb I have here, the latter doesn't cover the DNS in > > >any great depth. > > > > I'll put it this way - if you want to administer your own DNS domain, the > > O'Reilly DNS & Bind nutshell book is a lifesaver.... Well worth the > > investment, even for a small domain. > > Hmmm, it seems their TCP/IP book covers alot of what we wanted to > know though already.... The difference is, the TCP/IP book has one chapter, consisting of 18 pages, on setting up DNS. True, some of the same info is covered, but if you don't have a real good idea of how it works in the first place (I didn't) then you do need the DNS/BIND book. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 (Freebsd 2.0R) and n3lxx (301) 220-2114 | (FreeBSD 2.0.5-snap) and am I happy! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------