DNS and BIND, 4th Edition
By Paul Albitz and Cricket Liu


Unconfirmed error reports are from readers. They have not yet been 
approved or disproved by the author or editor and represent solely
the opinion of the reader.


This page was updated October 22, 2004.


Here's a key to the markup:
        
	[page-number]: serious technical mistake
        {page-number}: minor technical mistake
        <page-number>: important language/formatting problem
        (page-number): language change or minor formatting problem
        ?page-number?: reader question or request for clarification


UNCONFIRMED errors and suggestions from readers:


[67]  code segment, bottom half of page, last line;
The line:

1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR localhost.

should read:

1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR localhost.movie.edu.


{79}  2nd paragraph;
The example:
% h2n -d movie.edu -s terminator -s robocop \

Should read:
% h2n -d movie.edu -s terminator -s wormhole \


{100}  3rd Paragraph;
The error message:
554 MX list for acme.com points back to mail.isp.com

Should read:
554 MX list for acme.com points back to mail.isp.net



[307]  Second paragraph;
Although I am not 100% sure, in my opinion
\[x0042/8]   IN   DNAME    ip6.movie.edu

should be replaced by
\[x42/8]   IN   DNAME    ip6.movie.edu


[504]  Second paragraph under "A Limitation of MX Records", ;
This paragraph has the "preference" concept for MX records reversed.  That is to say
that the text explains that a higher MX preference would indicate a more preferred
mail exchanger, when in fact, a lower preference is better.

Example:

"Since the U.S relay is at a higher preference, all mail will go through that
relay..."

If you want mail to go through the U.S. mail server, it should have a lower
preference.

This entire paragraph has the preference reversed, not just the one example sentance
above.  The entire paragraph should be re-written to make the desired point.



{525}  zone definition for _msdcs.fx.movie.edu;
This zone definition (like the _sites one above) refers to the wrong
file: db._upd... instead of db._msdcs...  This is corrected in the
errata but the corrected version leaves out this important line:

   check-names ignore;

(533)  Third (last) section;
The terminating period on the value "terminator.movie.edu" is missing in the given
example.