Book review - The Book of PF 3rd Edition

PF has always been my "only" choice of firewall when I'm on OpenBSD or FreeBSD. My PF kungfu is just enough to use it as a host firewall though. Recently I needed to level up my PF skill in order to use it on one of my hobby project. This book came in the right time.

Since I'm using OpenBSD, the excellent manual & FAQ at www.openbsd.org would have what I needed. But the commercial offering (of this book) illustrated PF differently and with much more working examples. This means my homework is already done mostly, leaving me to read and "realized" the knowledge. :)

This is a short summary on what I found interesting while reading this book:

Book review - DNSSEC Mastery

For the past few days, I've spent most of my reading time with a new book titled DNSSEC Mastery. The author of the book is Michael W. Lucas, again (from my not too long ago book review blog post, Absolute OpenBSD 2nd Edition). He's now one of my favorite tech book author, upgraded from "favorite blog author". The "upgrade" was done after reading another of his new book published by No Starch Press, Absolute OpenBSD 2nd Edition. This review is the result of my reading of DNSSEC Mastery. It may not be the whole truth, but at least this is what I've understand from it.

Here it goes:

Book review - Absolute OpenBSD 2nd Edition

If you're following BSD related news, you probably would have know about Absolute OpenBSD, 2nd Edition. The author is Michael W. Lucas, well known for fantastic technical books (Absolute FreeBSD, Network Flow Analysis, SSH Mastery, DNSSEC Mastery & others ). A while ago, I got hold of this book, Absolute OpenBSD 2nd Edition (in short, AO2E), and spent some time on it. These are my findings, it may not be the whole truth but it is definitely how I understand it.