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At our June meeting, Cricket Liu, author of O'Reilly's book
DNS & BIND, presented the new features of BIND 8.2.2-P5, the
latest released version of BIND and hints about the new features in BIND
8.2.3 and 9.0.0. The new features he discussed include
enhanced forwarding, incremental zone transfer,
a new version of ndc, the name daemon controller, and configurable RRset order.
Cricket Liu is the co-author of both of O'Reilly & Associates Nutshell
Handbooks on the Domain Name System, DNS and BIND and DNS on Windows NT,
and is the principal author
of Managing Internet Information Services. Cricket worked for five and a
half years at Hewlett-Packard's Corporate Network Services, where he ran
hp.com, one of the largest
corporate domains in the world, and helped design the HP Internet's
security architecture. He later joined HP's consulting organization to
found their Internet consulting business.
Cricket left HP in 1997 to start his own company,
Acme Byte & Wire
with his friend and co-author Matt Larson. Acme Byte & Wire specializes in
consulting and training on the
Domain Name System, including both the BIND and Microsoft DNS Server
implementations. Acme Byte & Wire's customers include over 10% of Fortune
100 companies. Currently,
Cricket is working on the fourth edition of DNS and BIND.
Cricket's presentation slides are available on our Web site in
pdf format (122KB).
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