Ask HN: Best Books for Modern Computer Networks

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Seeking book recommendations to explore the basics and delve deeply into DNS, BGP, and their integration within cloud environments. Any suggestions would be highly appreciated! Thanks in advance!

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Book: Networks - Top down approach.

Also check the CCNA course "Jeremy's IT Lab" on YouTube. Highly recommend.

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The Top Down book by Kurose and Ross is hands-down one of the best books for Networking and is very relevant even today to understand the patterns.

Things like retries, backoffs, checksumming, error detection etc. can be done in multiple layers of the networking stack and often is done in multiple layers.

For BGP there’s [1] which is quite new and I wanted to check out, haven’t had the time yet. There are some older guides e.g. by Cisco as well.

I think in general more of the documentation and information is in blog posts and RFCs, so I’d start there, e.g. [2] is quite nice.

1: BGP (Border Gateway Protocol): from theory to practice - https://amzn.eu/d/i6EUYGj

2: https://labs.ripe.net/author/samir_jafferali/build-your-own-...

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