The Linux Network Administrator's Guide (NAG) is a book on setting up and running Unix

Unix

Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna...

 networks

Computer network

A computer network, often simply referred to as a network, is a collection of hardware components and computers interconnected by communication channels that allow sharing of resources and information....

. The first and second editions are freely available in electronic form under the GFDL

GNU Free Documentation License

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. It was originally produced by Olaf Kirch and others as part of the Linux Documentation Project

Linux Documentation Project

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 with help from O'Reilly

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. The second edition, from Terry Dawson, was released March 2000. The third edition of the guide was written by Tony Bautts, with assistance from Gregor N. Purdy in February 2005, but is not freely available like the previous two versions.

It includes the following sections:

• Introduction to Networking
  Computer network
  A computer network, often simply referred to as a network, is a collection of hardware components and computers interconnected by communication channels that allow sharing of resources and information....
  
  
• Issues of TCP/IP Networking
• Configuring the Networking Hardware
• Setting up the Serial Hardware
• Configuring TCP/IP Networking
• Name Service and Resolver Configuration
• Serial Line IP
• The Point-to-Point Protocol
  Point-to-Point Protocol
  In networking, the Point-to-Point Protocol is a data link protocol commonly used in establishing a direct connection between two networking nodes...
  
  
• Various Network Applications
• The Network Information System
  Network information system
  Network Information System is an information system for managing networks, such as electricity network, water supply network, gas supply network, or telecommunications network....
  
  
• The Network File System
• Managing UUCP
  UUCP
  UUCP is an abbreviation for Unix-to-Unix Copy. The term generally refers to a suite of computer programs and protocols allowing remote execution of commands and transfer of files, email and netnews between computers. Specifically, a command named uucp is one of the programs in the suite; it...
  
  
• Electronic Mail
• Getting email
  Email
  Electronic mail, commonly known as email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Modern email operates across the Internet or other computer networks. Some early email systems required that the author and the recipient both be online at the...
  
   Up and Running
• Sendmail+IDA
  Sendmail
  Sendmail is a general purpose internetwork email routing facility that supports many kinds of mail-transfer and -delivery methods, including the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol used for email transport over the Internet....
  
  
• Netnews
• C News
  C News
  C News is a news server package, written by Geoff Collyer, assisted by Henry Spencer, at the University of Toronto as a replacement for B News. It was presented at the Winter 1987 USENIX conference in Washington, D.C....
  
  
• A Description of NNTP
  Network News Transfer Protocol
  The Network News Transfer Protocol is an Internet application protocol used for transporting Usenet news articles between news servers and for reading and posting articles by end user client applications...
  
  
• Newsreader
  News client
  A newsreader is an application program that reads articles on Usenet . Newsreaders act as clients which connect to a news server, via the Network News Transfer Protocol , to download articles and post new articles...
  
  Configuration
• A glossary
• Annotated Bibliography.

External links

• The Second edition, http://www.tldp.org/LDP/nag2/index.html
• The Third edition http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linag3