Linux Network Administrator's Guide, Second Edition
by Olaf Kirch and Terry Dawson


Following are the changes made in the 11/00 reprint.


Here's the 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


[86] Under the "order" subhead;
The first instance of "hosts for lookups in /etc/hosts" is now the 
same font as "bind" and "nis" elsewhere in the paragraph.


{91} The references to the resolv.conf option "name server" have been 
changed to refer to "nameserver" (no space).  The same occurs on page 92.


{216}  In the second full paragraph, the authors list the set of two 
commands needed to enable IP masquerading in the kernel. The second set 
describes how to do it with the ipchains command under 2.2.x kernels.

The syntax (as printed) of the first command was:

# ipchains -P forward -j deny

This is a minor syntax error which produces the following error:

ipchains: -P requires a chain and a policy
Try 'ipchains -h' or 'ipchains --help' for more information.

The book now reads:

# ipchains -P forward DENY