I think version 4 of the ORA DNS&BIND book covers 9.x, so if you have the most recent copy the book should be helpful. Once concern may be if the machine has a smaller amount of memory and you want to provide DNS (and reverse DNS) for more than one domain. 8.x has one process running (IIRC) most of the time, but 9.x has one for each domain (plus one???). I hope there is some discussion of this in DNS&BIND v4...let me know (if that is the version of the book you have). Good luck, Troy >>> tl at assimilated.org 10/04/01 06:14PM >>> >>>>> "Brian" == Brian <lxy at cloudnet.com> writes: Brian> I'm setting up my first DNS server this weekend. I'm Brian> properly armed with the DNS-HOWTO and the O'Reilly DNS and Brian> BIND book. Simple question before I start, what version of Brian> BIND should I use? Older versions of course are exploits Brian> waiting to happen, and I've heard bad things about the Brian> bleeding edge stuff. Any suggestions? Yes, I missed the Brian> presentation on DNS, I wish I hadn't. 8.2.3 has served me well since 20 minutes after it was released. 9.x is purely nonsense. Additionally, your Oreilly book is most likely geared towards 8.x, or god forbid, 4.9.x.