Errata
The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released. If the error was corrected in a later version or reprint the date of the correction will be displayed in the column titled "Date Corrected".
The following errata were submitted by our customers and approved as valid errors by the author or editor.
Color key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update
Version | Location | Description | Submitted By | Date submitted | Date corrected |
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Printed | Page examples The downloadable examples from _DNS_and_BIND_ include a Perl script |
called h2n that translates a hosts file into a set of BIND files. The |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page XV URL |
ftp://ftp.oreilly.com/published/oreilly/nutshell/dnsbind/dns.tar.Z |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page ... four bits of the address." |
"four bits" HAS BEEN CHANGED to "sixteen bits" |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page INDEX (Change applied to print version of book ONLY) |
An entry for the $GENERATE control statement, described on pp. 237-240, has been added to the index. |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 17 Seventh paragraph, plus other instances |
Throughout the book, the reference is to "U.C. Berkeley." On the Berkeley |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 60 In SOA example, last line |
1h ) ; Negative caching TTL of 1 day |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 66 First example |
"... al.robocop.movie.edu.(" |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 70 second last line |
file "db.movie"; |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 86 Roughly half way down page |
"then the modified line looks like this: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 87 BIND 8 or 9 configuration example;file substatement of zone "253.253.192.in-addr.arpa" statement |
file "db.192.253.253"; |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 89 1st example, last line |
"Negative caching TTL of 1 day" |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 98 3rd paragraph, 2nd line |
"The mailer of ruby.oreilly.com then tries to forward the mail on to ora.reilly.com,..." |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 237 $GENERATE statement example |
$GENERATE 200-207 $.1.15.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN NS ns-1.cns.hp.com. |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 238 2nd paragraph |
$GENERATE 0-63 $.254.253.192.in-addr.arpa 86400 IN NS ns1.foo.com. |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 239-240 Through out |
The format of the $GENERATE is wrong. |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 252 2nd last paragraph;usage for "prereq nxrrset" |
NOW READS: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 258 |
reads: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 272 named.conf, view external, zone "in-addr.arpa" |
zone "254.254.192.in-addr.arpa" { |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 273 1st paragraph, 6th line |
" For example, if the domain name foo.bar.baz had three "shuffled" IP addresses, |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 296 second paragraph |
"The first group of hex digits [...] represents the most significant |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 297 last paragraph |
"... followed by three reserved bits (set to zero), then ...". |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 306 8th paragraph (not counting code examples as paragraphs) |
"The first of these matches ..." |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 307 the third code sample is this |
$ORIGIN ip6.nlab.net. |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 327 1st paragraph;^M |
"The zones movie.edu and 249.249.192.in-addr.arpa are defined identically in both zones" |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 365 3rd paragraph |
In the April 2001 printing, the resulting file from the Bind 9 command: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 375 2nd paragraph, 2nd line, 1st character |
right after 'dig' the format of the opening parenthesis HAS BEEN CHANGED from italic to regular body font. |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 394 |
you list the PTR record for 192.249.249.3 as |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 400 4th paragraph |
"The flags tells us a bit more about the response." |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 2001 | |
Printed | Page 411 2nd paragraph |
NOW READS: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 421 example code; the second (nested) if statement |
NOW READS: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 525 under the zone definitions for _sites and _msdcs |
zone "_sites.fx.movie.edu" { |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 525 |
The third zone statement should read: |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 2001 |