Big Book Of Best Current Practices RFCS; Editor: Loshin, Pete; Paperback

Editor: Loshin, Pete
Big Book (Morgan Kaufmann); Paperback
450 pages
Published: September 2000
Harcourt Publishers Ltd, a subsidiary of Harcourt International Ltd
ISBN: 012455847X

The Big Books are the only print source for the much-sought after Requests For Comments, or RFCs -- the online documentation governing computing standards and protocols in a variety of areas. The Big Book of Best Current Practices covers a wide range of critical topics, including Internet and IP networking, security, private IP network address space management, and the use and abuse of the Domain Name System (DNS). It shows how the protocols in these areas are supposed to be implented from a best-practices perspective and helps readers master the accepted ways of implementing key computing standards. Like all the Big Books, it includes not only the RFCs themselves, but also an introduction, glossary, and index for easy reference. It also includes cross-references to entries in otThis text focuses on how to deploy and implement the Internet protocols. Topics cover the gamut of Internet and IP networking practices, from security to provate IP network address space management to the use and abuse of the Domain Name System.