Lucas - DNSSEC Mastery: Securing the Domain Name System with BIND

DNSSEC Mastery

Securing the Domain Name System with BIND

by Michael W Lucas

Tilted Windmill Press

Praise for other books by Michael W Lucas

SSH Mastery

SSH Mastery is a title that Unix users andsystem administrators like myself will want to keep within reach Peter Hansteen, author of The Book of PF

"This stripping-down of the usual tech-bookexplanations gives it the immediacy of extended documentation onthe Internet. Not the multipage how-to articles used as vehiclesfor advertising, but an in-depth presentation from someone who usedOpenSSH to do a number of things, and paid attention while doingit." DragonFlyBSD Digest

"one of those technical books that you wouldntkeep on your bookshelf. Its one of the books that will have itsbindings bent, and many pages bookmarked sitting near thekeyboard." Steven K Hicks

Network Flow Analysis

"Combining a great writing style with lots oftechnical info, this book provides a learning experience that'sboth fun and interesting. Not too many technical books can claimthat." ;login: Magazine, October 2010

"This book is worth its weight in gold,especially if you have to deal with a shoddy ISP who always blamesthings on your network." Utahcon.com

"The book is a comparatively quick read and willcome in handy when troubleshooting and analyzing network problems."Dr. Dobbs

"Network Flow Analysis is a pick for any librarystrong in network administration and data management. It's thefirst to show system administrators how to assess, analyze anddebut a network using flow analysis, and comes from one of the besttechnical writers in the networking and security environments." Midwest Book Review

Absolute FreeBSD, 2ndEdition

"I am happy to say that Michael Lucas isprobably the best system administration author Ive read. I amamazed that he can communicate top-notch content with a sense ofhumor, while not offending the reader or sounding stupid. When wasthe last time you could physically feel yourself getting smarterwhile reading a book? If you are a beginning to average FreeBSDuser, Absolute FreeBSD 2nd Ed (AF2E) will deliver that sensation inspades. Even more advanced users will find plenty to enjoy. Richard Bejtlich, CSO, MANDIANT, and TaoSecurity blogger

Master practitioner Lucas organizes featuresand functions to make sense in the development environment, and soprovides aid and comfort to new users, novices, and those withsignificant experience alike. SciTech Book News, Vol. 32,No.1

reads well as the author has a veryconversational tone, while giving you more than enough informationon the topic at hand. He drops in jokes and honest truths, as ifyou were talking to him in a bar. Technology and MeBlog

Cisco Routers for the Desperate, 2ndEdition

If only Cisco Routers for the Desperate hadbeen on my bookshelf a few years ago! It would have definitelysaved me many hours of searching for configuration help on my Ciscorouters.... I would strongly recommend this book for both ITProfessionals looking to get started with Cisco routers, as well asanyone who has to deal with a Cisco router from time to time butdoesnt have the time or technological know-how to tackle a morein-depth book on the subject. Blogcritics Magazine

"For me, reading this book was like having oneof the guys in my company who lives and breathes Cisco sitting downwith me for a day and explaining everything I need to know tohandle problems or issues likely to come my way. There may be manyadditional things I could potentially learn about my Ciscoswitches, but likely few I'm likely to encounter in myenvironment." IT World

"This really ought to be the book inside everyCisco Router box for the very slim chance things go goofy and helpis needed 'right now.'" MacCompanion

Absolute OpenBSD

"My current favorite is Absolute OpenBSD: Unixfor the Practical Paranoid by Michael W. Lucas from No StarchPress. Anyone should be able to read this book, download OpenBSD,and get it running as quickly as possible." Infoworld

"I recommend Absolute OpenBSD to all programmersand administrators working with the OpenBSD operating system (OS),or considering it." UnixReview

Absolute OpenBSD by Michael Lucas is a broadand mostly gentle introduction into the world of the OpenBSDoperating system. It is sufficiently complete and deep to givesomeone new to OpenBSD a solid footing for doing real work and themental tools for further exploration The potentially boring topicof systems administration is made very readable and even fun by thelight tone that Lucas uses. Chris Palmer, President, SanFrancisco OpenBSD Users Group

PGP & GPG

"...The World's first user-friendly book onemail privacy...unless you're a cryptographer, or never use email,you should read this book." Len Sassaman, CodeConFounder

An excellent book that shows the end-user in aneasy to read and often entertaining style just about everythingthey need to know to effectively and properly use PGP and OpenPGP. Slashdot

PGP & GPG is another excellent book byMichael Lucas. I thoroughly enjoyed his other books due to theircontent and style. PGP & GPG continues in this fine tradition.If you are trying to learn how to use PGP or GPG, or at least wantto ensure you are using them properly, read PGP & GPG. TaoSecurity

Author: Michael W Lucas

Technical Review: Doug Barton

Copyediting: Aidan Julianna "AJ" Powell

Cover: Bradley K McDevitt

Print Layout: Jess McDevitt

Published by Tilted Windmill Press(http://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com) in April 2013.

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Copyright 2013 Michael W Lucas. All rightsreserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted inany form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, includingphotocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrievalsystem, without the prior written permission of the copyright ownerand the publisher.

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About the Author:http://www.michaelwlucas.com/

A special thanks to my pre-publicationreviewers: Henrik Lund Kramshj, Fredrik Ludl, Jan-Piet Mens, ScottMurphy, Mike O'Connor, and Eivind Olsen. Notably, Alan Clegg andCarsten Strotmann went above and beyond in reviewing this book.

Before even starting this book, I asked poorDoug Barton of BlueCat Networks to be my lead technical reviewer.Mutual friends tell me that he's stopped moaning "Oh, the pain,"and should be able to speak coherently any day now. I do hope he'slearned his lesson.

Any errors in this book crept in despite theefforts of these fine folks.

As an experiment, I published in-progressversions of this manuscript on LeanPub (https://www.leanpub.com).To my surprise, many people bought the incomplete book. To mygreater surprise, several people chose to overpay for it. I want tothank everyone who purchased the in-progress book. While I won'tpublically name and shame those who wanted to give me a tip, I willsay thanks to parts of their email addresses: sven, nawfal,bonetruck, alejandro, olgamirth, axel, shori, marcus, cdjk anddikshie.