How to Find Out More

A number of useful books are available on various aspects of network administration. For example, you will find the following books particularly helpful:

• Barnett, D.A., R.E. Silverman, and R.G. Byrnes. Linux Security Cookbook. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly, 2003.

• Burk, Robin, et al. UNIX Unleashed. 3rd ed. Indianapolis, IN: Howard W. Sams, 1998.

• Cervone, H. Frank. Solaris Performance Administration. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1998.

• Eisner, Mike, Ricardo Labiaga, and Hal Stern. Managing NFS and NIS. 2nd ed. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly. 2001.

• Hunt, Craig. TCP/IP Network Administration. 3rd ed. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly, 2002.

• Mansfield, Niall. Practical TCP/IP: Designing, Using, and Troubleshooting TCP/IP Networks on Linux and Windows. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 2003.

• Wells, Nicholas. Guide to Linux Networking and Security. Boston, MA: Thompson, 2003.

Here are some references for network security administration:

• Zwicky, Elizabeth, Simon Cooper, and D. Brent Chapman. Building Internet Firewalls. 2nd ed. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly, 2000.

• Cheswick, William R., Steven Bellovin, and Aviel Rubin. Firewalls and Internet Security: Repelling the Wiley Hacker. 2nd ed. Boston, MA: Addison-Wesley, 2003.

• Freiss, Martin. Protecting Networks with SATAN. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly, 1998.

• Garfinkel, Simson, Gene Spafford, and Alan Schwartz. Practical UNIX and Internet Security. 3rd ed. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly, 2003.

• Smith, Peter G., Linux Network Security. Hingham, MA: Charles River Media, 2005.

• Wells, Nicholas, Guide to Linux Networking and Security. Boston, MA: Course Technology, 2002.

If you want to understand sendmail better, you can try

• Costales, Bryan, and Eric Allman. Sendmail 3rd ed. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly, 2002.

If you want to understand the IPv6 protocol, you might try

• Feit, Sidnie. TCP/IP: Architecture, Protocols, and Implementation with IPv6 and IP Security. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1998.

• Loshin, Peter. IPv6 Clearly Explained. San Francisco, CA: Morgan-Kaufmann Publishers, 1999.

If you want to use newsgroups to find out more about some of the topics covered in this chapter, you can try comp.security.firewalls and comp.security.misc for firewall information, comp.protocols.dns.std for DNS standards work, comp.protocols.nfs for NFS information, and comp.protocols.ppp for PPP information. For understanding network abuse and how it is being handled across the industry try the newsgroup news.admin.net-abuse. For more generic network administration topics, try comp.unix.