DNS & BIND
Author: Cricket Liu
DNS and BIND tells you everything you need to work with one of the Internet's fundamental building blocks: the distributed host information database that's responsible for translating names into addresses, routing mail to its proper destination, and even listing phone numbers with the new ENUM standard. This book brings you up-to-date with the latest changes in this crucial service.
The fifth edition covers BIND 9.3.2, the most recent release of the BIND 9 series, as well as BIND 8.4.7. BIND 9.3.2 contains further improvements in security and IPv6 support, and important new features such as internationalized domain names, ENUM (electronic numbering), and SPF (the Sender Policy Framework).
Whether you're an administrator involved with DNS on a daily basis or a user who wants to be more informed about the Internet and how it works, you'll find that this book is essential reading.
Topics include:
- What DNS does, how it works, and when you need to use it
- How to find your own place in the Internet's namespace
- Setting up name servers
- Using MX records to route mail
- Configuring hosts to use DNS name servers
- Subdividing domains (parenting)
- Securing your name server: restricting who can query your server, preventing unauthorized zone transfers, avoiding bogus servers, etc.
- The DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) and Transaction Signatures (TSIG)
- Mapping one name to several servers for load sharing
- Dynamic updates, asynchronous notification of change to a zone, and incremental zone transfers
- Troubleshooting: using nslookup and dig, reading debugging output, common problems
- DNS programming using the resolver library and Perl's Net::DNS module
Table of Contents:
| 1 | Background | 1 |
| 2 | How does DNS work? | 11 |
| 3 | Where do I start? | 37 |
| 4 | Setting up BIND | 53 |
| 5 | DNS and electronic mail | 89 |
| 6 | Configuring hosts | 100 |
| 7 | Maintaining BIND | 127 |
| 8 | Growing your domain | 177 |
| 9 | Parenting | 201 |
| 10 | Advanced features | 226 |
| 11 | Security | 282 |
| 12 | Nslookup and dig | 349 |
| 13 | Reading BIND debugging output | 376 |
| 14 | Troubleshooting DNS and BIND | 396 |
| 15 | Programming with the Resolver and Nameserver library routines | 438 |
| 16 | Architecture | 474 |
| 17 | Miscellaneous | 483 |
| A | DNS message format and resource records | 517 |
| B | BIND compatibility matrix | 537 |
| C | Compiling and installing BIND on Linux | 538 |
| D | Top-level domains | 543 |
| E | BIND Nameserver and Resolver configuration | 548 |
Book review: Transition Handbook or What the Corpse Revealed
Microsoft Office Access 2007 Forms, Reports, and Queries
Author: Paul McFedries
“Everything you need to master Access 2007 forms, reports, and queries.”
–Charles Carr, Reviews Editor, ComputorEdge Magazine
Create Forms for Business
Ensure Data Entry Accuracy
Build Elegant Form Interfaces
Collect Data Via Email
Design Effective Business Reports
Make an Invoice Report
Create Mailing Labels
Extract Data
Work with Multiple Tables
Calculate Discounts
Analyze Data
Develop your Microsoft Access expertise instantly with proven techniques
Let’s face it: Microsoft Access is a large, intimidating program. Most people never progress beyond creating simple tables and using wizards to build basic forms and reports. At the same time, you need information and you know that what you seek is embedded somewhere in your Access database. Without a more sophisticated knowledge of how to extract and present that data, you’re forced to rely on office gurus and overworked IT people to provide canned reports or one-size-fits-all solutions.
This book changes all that by giving you the skills tobuild efficient front-ends for data (forms), publish the results in an attractive and easy-to-read format (reports), and extract the data you need (queries). This book shuns the big Access picture and instead focuses intently on forms, reports, and queries. This in-depth approach will give you the knowledge and understanding you need to get at the data and prove the old saw that knowledge is power.
· Focuses on the three technologies that you must master to get the most out of Access: forms, reports, and queries.
· Avoids database theory in favor of practical know-how that you can put to use right away.
· Packed full of real-world examples and techniques to help you learn and understand the importance of each section.
· Covers what’s new and changed in Microsoft Access 2007.
Introduction 1
Part I: Creating Forms 5
Chapter 1 Creating and Using a Form 7
Chapter 2 Working with Form Controls 29
Chapter 3 Designing Forms for Efficient and Accurate Data Entry 49
Chapter 4 Designing Forms for Business Use 77
Chapter 5 Creating Specialized Forms 95
Part II: Designing and Customizing Reports 111
Chapter 6 Creating and Publishing a Report 113
Chapter 7 Designing Effective Business Reports 141
Chapter 8 Designing Advanced Reports 157
Chapter 9 Creating Specialized Reports 177
Part III: Creating Powerful Queries 197
Chapter 10 Creating a Basic Query 199
Chapter 11 Building Criteria Expressions 231
Chapter 12 Working with Multiple-Table Queries 259
Chapter 13 Creating Advanced Queries 287
Chapter 14 Creating PivotTable Queries 311
Chapter 15 Querying with SQL Statements 341
Index 361
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