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Title: The DHCP Handbook: Understanding, Deploying, and Managing Automated Configuration Services by Ted Lemon, Ralph E. Droms ISBN: 1578701376 Publisher: Pearson Higher Education Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.8
Rating: 2
Summary: Examples, examples, readers need examples!
Comment: I have been so disappointed by the book -the only printing material available today for ISC DHCP. Yes. This book will teach you something, especially some theoretical stuff for DHCP. However, when you finally site down to set up your first DHCP server for your LAN, even a very simple LAN, you would find that you have learned very little from this book. DHCP should not be that hard, but the authors made it complicated and confusing by putting too much theories and too few hands-on examples in this book.
For one of the most important parts in this filed, DHCP+DDNS, the authors did not provide readers any useful syntax and examples in the very short Chapter 22. The APENDIX B "ISC DHCP Server Configuration File Reference" is also poorly written. It is not organized alphabetically, and the authors asked you to refer to the index for what you want. When I try to search the word 'ddns-domain-name', I couldn't find it in the Index. In addition, on the first page of APENDIX B, the authors gave you two broken links to make you frustrated further. APPENDIX A is "Microsoft DHCP Server Examples." Where are the examples for UNIX? We all know that configuring DHCP on NT is a piece of cake.
My general impression is that the two authors know too much theories, but seriously lack hands-on experience on TCP/IP including DHCP. The other possibility is that they don't know how to make complicated knowledge and skills simple in order to make readers understand them easily. In other words, they are not good teachers and instructors. Good teachers make complicated things simple, and poor teachers make simple things complicated.
This book should have taught you everything for setting up DHCP, but it failed. You will have to spend lots of time to search the ISC DHCP archive, and ask people the basic questions about some syntaxes. The worse thing is that this is the only DHCP book you can get on the market today. The only good thing for me was that I bought the book from an eBay auction, and did not pay the full price... . The value of this poorly written book is definitely not worth the high price.
Rating: 2
Summary: Examples, examples, we need hands-on examples!
Comment: I have been so disappointed by the book -the only printing material available today for ISC DHCP. Yes. This book will teach you something, especially some theoretical stuff for DHCP. However, when you finally site down to set up your first DHCP server for your LAN, even a very simple LAN, you would find that you have learned very little from this book. DHCP should not be that hard, but the authors made it complicated and confusing by putting too much theories and too few hands-on examples in this book.
For one of the most important parts in this filed, DHCP+DDNS, the authors did not provide readers any useful syntax and examples in the very short Chapter 22. The APENDIX B "ISC DHCP Server Configuration File Reference" is also poorly written. It is not organized alphabetically, and the authors asked you to refer to the index for what you want. When I try to search the word 'ddns-domain-name', I couldn't find it in the Index. In addition, on the first page of APENDIX B, the authors gave you two broken links to make you frustrated further. APPENDIX A is "Microsoft DHCP Server Examples." Where are the examples for UNIX? We all know that configuring DHCP on NT is a piece of cake.
My general impression is that the two authors know too much theories, but seriously lack hands-on experience on TCP/IP including DHCP. The other possibility is that they don't know how to make complicated knowledge and skills simple in order to make readers understand them easily. In other words, they are not good teachers and instructors. Good teachers make complicated things simple, and poor teachers make simple things complicated.
This book should have taught you everything for setting up DHCP, but it failed. You will have to spend lots of time to search the ISC DHCP archive, and ask people the basic questions about some syntaxes. The worse thing is that this is the only DHCP book you can get on the market today. The only good thing for me was that I bought the book from an eBay auction, and did not pay the full price, $55. The value of this poorly written book is definitely not worth the high price.
Rating: 5
Summary: Good beginners book and in the long run a good reference
Comment: This book will bring you up to speed very quickly if you're a beginner. If you already know about DHCP, this book makes a good reference manual. A lot of the content is repeated from one chapter to another, keeping you from having to flip back and forth to other chapters
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Title: The DHCP Handbook (2nd Edition) by Ralph Droms, Ted Lemon ISBN: 0672323273 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 28 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $54.99 |
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Title: DNS and BIND, Fourth Edition by Paul Albitz, Cricket Liu ISBN: 0596001584 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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Title: DNS & BIND Cookbook by Cricket Liu ISBN: 0596004109 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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