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In this book, the authors leave you guessing in a number of areas. This is a book for experts, so if you don't have any experience with DNS and Bind, forget it. Hire a consultant or go to university and start at the beginning.

In chapter 3, "Where Do I Start?" it gives some fairly shallow information on setting up zone files. Like I said, this is obviously a book for experts. It leaves you to guess in anumber of areas.

I couldn't even finish writing the zone files properly as covered in chapter 3. And when I did, following the instructions to the letter (of which there weren't many - I had to guess) I got errors all over the place.

All I was looking for was the basics. How to setup nameservers so I could have ns0.myname.com and ns1.myname.com and tell my hosting customers who host their domains on my machines to alter the DNS records of their domain to point to my nameservers, and how to setup www.myname.com as an alias for the domain or whatever. And how to add other domains, so I can host websites for others on my dedicated server.

I am sorely disappointed I spent money I couldn't afford to spend anyway, but had to. There's just nowhere else to turn.

I am wishing hard for "DNS and BIND for Dummies" written in clear, plain English, and which doesn't leave you guessing.

The information in this book is scant and for DNS/Bind experts only.

James Buchanan

Owner/Operator of a very small web hosting company