Albitz, P. and Cricket Liu, DNS and BIND in a Nutshell, Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly & Associates, 1992
Krol, E., The Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog, Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly & Associates, 1992, pp. 25-30
Costales, B. with E. Allman & N. Rickert, sendmail, Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly & Associates, 1993, Chapter 17: "DNS and sendmail"
Stahl, M., Domain Administrator's Guide, RFC 1032, SRI International, November 1987
Lottor, M., Domain Administrators Operations Guide, RFC 1033, SRI International, November 1987
Mockapetris, P., Domain Names — Concepts and Facilities, RFC 1034, USC/Information Sciences Institute, November 1987
Mockapetris, P., Domain Names — Implementation and Specification, RFC 1035, USC/Information Sciences Institute, November 1987
Gavron, E., A Security Problem and Proposed Correction with Widely Deployed DNS Software, RFC 1535, ACES Research Inc., October 1993
Kumar, A. et al, Common DNS Implementation Errors and Suggested Fixes, RFC 1536, USC/Information Sciences Institute, October 1993
Beertema, P., Common DNS Data File Configuration Errors, RFC 1537, CWI, October 1993
Other RFCs include 1101,1706, and 1876.