The Networking CD Bookshelf 2e - Softcover

O′reilly

Softcover

ISBN 10: 059600334X ISBN 13: 9780596003340

Publisher: O′Reilly, 2002

Synopsis

More and more, technology professionals are relying on the Web, online help, and other online information sources to solve their tough problems. Now, with O'Reilly's "Networking CD Bookshelf, Version 2.0, you can have the same convenient online access to your favorite O'Reilly books--all from your CD-ROM drive.

We've packed seven of our best-selling guides onto this CD-ROM, giving you 4,016 pages of O'Reilly references and tutorials --fully searchable and cross-referenced, so you can search either the individual index for each book or the master index for the entire collection. Included are the complete, unabridged versions of these popular titles:

"TCP/IP Network Administration, 3rd Edition

DNS & Bind, 4th Edition

Building Internet Firewalls, 2nd Edition

SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide

Network Troubleshooting Tools

Managing NFS & NIS, 2nd Edition

Essential SNMP

As a bonus, you also get the new paperback version of "TCP/IP Network Administration, 3rd Edition.

Now it's easier than ever to find what you need to know about managing, administering, and protecting networks. This unique CD-ROM is a dream come true for network and system administrators--potent combination of books that offers unprecedented power and flexibility in this ever-expanding field. Formatted in HTML, "The Networking CD Bookshelf, Version 2.0, can be accessed with any web browser, so you have a complete library of technical books that you can carry with you anywhere you need it. No other resource makes so much valuable information so easy to find and so convenient to use.

About this title

Review

With six electronic titles and one in traditional printed format (DNS and Bind by Paul Albitz and Cricket Liu), this natty collection of titles is an essential reference for networking managers.

Comprising TCP/IP Network Administration, Building Internet Firewalls, Practical Unix and Internet Security and two versions of a book on Sendmail there's something here to help ease all situations.

Although the titles mainly concern Unix systems the disc installs a Java run-time interpreter to support the search engine included on the disc, which runs on Linux, other Unices, Windows 95/98/NT and Apple OS--provided they have a Web browser available. Once installed you can search on the full text of any or all of the books using search queries with Boolean operators.

When you're looking for information in technical books the limitations of the index are often all too obvious. Not so with a full text search engine. You can find relevant information in seconds. Trying to track down a problem printing from a Linux box to an NT server seemed a fair test of the search feature--and in seconds the screen was full of relevant information. One point though, factor in the cost of a second CD drive for your computer. You'll want to keep this CD permanently available. -- Steve Patient

Review

"...at a total of 3,500 pages, this is one of the most in-depth resources reviewed here, so network and system administrators can find anything they need in one click, with easy-to-navigate books and a search engine that checks through every text." - Heather McLean, IT Training, June

Edition details

• Publisher: O′Reilly
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 059600334X
• ISBN 13: 9780596003340
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 736