* Original message posted in: TCPIP.
* Crossposted in: UNIX.
Hello All!
I've been promising several times to post my list of "recommended" books 
along with all pertinent information. So.. as I sit here at my desk on a day 
that looks like I'm not going to get anything else done anyway... here it is.
This list will be saved and posted monthly as part of the guidelines posts in 
both UNIX and TCPIP. If there are any other "must have" books that anybody 
thinks should be on this list, feel free to point them out to me -- this list 
is by no means proprietary!
In fact, a couple of -good- WinNT TCP/IP references would be good to add to 
the list. I possess two or three, but have not yet had time to review them 
(although soon I will!) -- and when I do, I'll be sure to comment on them. 
>
UNIX ADMINISTRATION
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* Nemeth, Evi, et.al. _Unix(r) System Administration Handbook, 2nd edition_, 
Prentice Hall, 1995, 779pp, ISBN 0-13-151051-7, Price: N/A
   This book is the basic "bible" of Unix SysAdmin. It's a general Unix 
overview, but makes special notes with regard to six flavors of Unix: Solaris 
2.4, SunOS 4.1.3, HP-UX 9.0, DEC OSF/1 2.0, IRIX 5.2, and BSD/OS 1.1 (the 
authors also note that almost all information is accurate for BSD/OS 2.0 
also).
   The book covers Booting/Shutdown, Root Powers, Filesystems, System 
Processes, Adding New Users, Devices and Drivers, Serial Devices, Adding 
Disks,  Periodic Processes (at, batch, cron), Backups, Syslog/Log Files, 
Kernel Configuration, TCP/IP & Routing, Network Hardware, DNS, NFS,  NIS, 
SLIP/PPP, The Internet, Electronic Mail (including 50 pages on v8 sendmail), 
Network Management, Security, Usenet, Printing/Imaging, Disk Space 
Management, Hardware Maintenance, System Accounting, Performance Analysis, 
UUCP, Daemons, and Policy/Politics.
* Rosen, Kenneth, et.al., _UNIX System V Release 4: An Introduction_, 
Osborne/McGraw-Hill, 1990, 1228pp, ISBN 0-07-881552-5, Price: $29.95
   This was the book (actually it's predecessor) that I cut my teeth on. 
Unless you're working in an exclusively BSD environment this is an excellent 
resource to have on hand. Even for SVR3.2 SCO users, there is much in this 
book that can be beneficial -- if you just ignore the SVR4 filesystem 
hanges.
   The book is divided into seven parts covering essentially the same 
information in the Nemeth book, although with a direct SVR4 slant. In 
addition, this book also includes chapters on Text Editing/Processing, Shell 
Programming, the X Environment, and Applications Development.
* Frisch, AEleen, _Essential System Administration_, O'Reilly and Associates, 
Inc., 1991/1995, 758pp, ISBN 1-56592-127-5, Price: $32.95
   This book covers a slightly wider range of flavors (and newer versions) 
than Nemeth; the list includes SunOS 4.1.4, Solaris 2.4, AIX 4, Digital UNIX 
3, SCO UNIX 3, HP-UX 9 and 10, IRIX 6, and Linux 1.3.
   The book includes sixteen chapters with topics essentially the same as the 
previous two books, but with a slant more towards the needs of the novice 
administrator (as are almost all O'Reilly publications). One particular note 
is the individual sections on Configurating and Building Kernels for each of 
the eight flavors covered.
* Arthur, Lowell Jan & Ted Burns, _Unix Shell Programming, 3rd edition_, 
Wiley & Sons, 1994, 460pp, ISBN 0-471-59941-7, Price: $29.95
   If you're looking for the definitive guide to Shell Programming, this is 
the book. Fourteen chapters divided into three parts titled "Shell for the 
Novice", "Shell Programming for Results", and "Shell Programming for Mastery" 
cover every aspect of shell programming from simple tasks for the novice user 
up to complex scripting environments for the master administrator.
TCP/IP ADMINSTRATION
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* Comer, Douglas E., _Internetworking with TCP/IP: Volume I: Principles, 
Protocols, and Architecture, Prentice Hall, 1995, 613pp, ISBN 0-13-216987-8, 
Price: N/A
   This is the "bible" of TCP/IP. If you plan to do anything at all with 
TCP/IP other than be a casual users of Internet-based services, you need to 
read this book cover to cover. (There are two additional Volumes for the 
person with designs as a TCP/IP programmer.)
   The book covers the history, design, and concepts of the protocol suite, 
internet addressing, ARP/RARP, datagrams, routing protocols, ICMP, subnetting 
and supernetting, protocol layering, UDP, TCP,  GGP, EGP, RIP, OSPF, HELLO, 
IGMP,  ATM, Client-Server, Sockets, BOOTP, DHCP,  DNS, Telnet/RLogin, 
FTP/TFTP/NFS, RFC822/SMTP/MIME, SNMP/SNMP2, Internet Security & Firewall 
Design, IPng/IPv6, and a 45 page guide to RFCs.
* Albitz, Paul & Cricket Liu, _DNS and BIND, 2nd edition_, O'Reilly & 
Associates, 1992/1997, 419pp, ISBN 1-56592-236-0, Price: 32.95
   If you're planning to build, design, administer, implement, or use Domain 
Name Services, you need to read at least the first two chapters of this book. 
The book takes the reader step by step through the design and implementation 
of a DNS server. 
* Hunt, Craig, _TCP/IP Network Administration, O'Reilly & Associates, 1992, 
473pp, ISBN 0-937175-82-X, Price: $32.95
   This is the hands on, get the first host up and running, book. For most 
Unix administrators who've read one of the above Unix books, there probably 
isn't much new information in this book. However, for a novice Unix user, or 
a first time Linux administator, or possibly even a non-Unix TCP/IP user, 
this is a good basic, general overview of what's involved in making a host 
communicate on the 'net.
Lawrence Garvin
Moderator, TCPIP
Moderator, UNIX
lawrence@garvin.hd.co.harris.tx.us 
lawrence@eforest.houston.tx.us
lawrence@tcrs.org
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