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Whole document tree 11. How to become a bigger time DNS admin.Documentation and tools.
Real Documentation exists. Online and in print. The reading of several of these is required to make the step from small time DNS admin to a big time one.
I have written The Concise Guide to DNS and BIND (by Nicolai Langfeldt, me), published by Que (ISBN 0-7897-2273-9). The book is much like this HOWTO, just more details, and a lot more of everything. It has also been translated to Polish and published as DNS i BIND by Helion ( http://helion.pl/ksiazki/dnsbin.htm, ISBN 83-7197-446-9). Now in 4th edition is DNS and BIND by Cricket Liu and P. Albitz from O'Reilly & Associates (ISBN 0-937175-82-X, affectionately known as the Cricket book). Another book is Linux DNS Server Administration, by Craig Hunt, published by Sybex (ISBN 0782127363), I have not read it yet. Another must for good DNS administration (or good anything for that matter) is Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig.
Online you will find my book, along with tons of other books, available electronically as a subscription service at http://safari.informit.com/. There is stuff on http://www.dns.net/dnsrd/ (DNS Resources Directory), http://www.isc.org/bind.html; A FAQ, a reference manual (the ARM should be enclosed in the BIND distribution as well) as well as papers and protocol definitions and DNS hacks (these, and most, if not all, of the RFCs mentioned below, are also contained in the BIND distribution). I have not read most of these. The newsgroup news:comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains is about DNS. In addition there are a number of RFCs about DNS, the most important are probably the ones listed here. Those that have BCP (Best Current Practice) numbers are highly recommended.
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