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

The following errata were *corrected in the 3/04 reprint:

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



{XV}  URL:
ftp://ftp.oreilly.com/published/oreilly/nutshell/dnsbind/dns.tar.Z

NOW READS:
ftp://ftp.oreilly.com/published/oreilly/nutshell/dnsbind/



{60}  In SOA example, last line;
   1h )  ; Negative caching TTL of 1 day

Comment NOW READS:
 "Negative caching TTL of 1 hour


[66]  First example:
"... al.robocop.movie.edu.("

NOW READS:
"... al.robocop.movie.edu. ("



{70} second last line
file "db.movie";

NOW READS:
file "db.movie.edu";



(86) Roughly half way down page
"then the modified line looks like this:
 	secondary   movie.edu		192.249.249.3  db.movie.edu "

NOW READS:
"then the modified line looks like this:
        secondary   movie.edu           192.249.249.3  bak.movie.edu "



{87}  BIND 8 or 9 configuration example;file substatement of zone "253.253.192.in-addr.arpa" statement;
file "db.192.253.253";

NOW READS:
file "bak.192.253.253";



{89}  1st example, last line:
"Negative caching TTL of 1 day" 

NOW READS:
"Negative caching TTL of 1 hour"


(98) 3rd paragraph, 2nd line;
"The mailer of ruby.oreilly.com then tries to forward the mail on to ora.reilly.com,..."

NOW READS:
"The mailer of ruby.oreilly.com then tries to forward the mail on to ora.oreilly.com,..."


{237}  $GENERATE statement example;
$GENERATE 200-207 $.1.15.in-addr.arpa.  86400  IN  NS  ns-1.cns.hp.com.
$GENERATE 200-207 $.1.15.in-addr.arpa.  86400  IN  NS  ns-1.cns.hp.com.

NOW READS:
$GENERATE 200-207 $.1.15.in-addr.arpa.  86400  IN  NS  ns-1.cns.hp.com.
$GENERATE 200-207 $.1.15.in-addr.arpa.  86400  IN  NS  ns-2.cns.hp.com.


(238)  2nd paragraph;
$GENERATE 0-63 $.254.253.192.in-addr.arpa 86400 IN NS ns1.foo.com.
$GENERATE 0-63 $.254.253.192.in-addr.arpa 86400 IN NS ns2.foo.com.

NOW READS:
$GENERATE 0-63 $.254.253.192.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN NS ns1.foo.com.
$GENERATE 0-63 $.254.253.192.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN NS ns2.foo.com.


(252)  2nd last paragraph;usage for "prereq nxrrset";

NOW READS:
prereq nxrrset domain name type


Also, the usage for "prereq nxdomain" command at the top of page 253 

NOW READS:
prereq nxdomain domain name



{258} reads:
grant identity wildcard fx.movie.edu:

NOW READS:
grant identity wildcard *.fx.movie.edu



(272)  named.conf, view external, zone "in-addr.arpa";
zone "254.254.192.in-addr.arpa" {

NOW READS:
zone "254.253.192.in-addr.arpa" {



[296]  second paragraph;
"The first group of hex digits [...] represents the most significant
[...] four bits of the address."

"four bits" HAS BEEN CHANGED to "sixteen bits"


(297)  last paragraph;
"... followed by three reserved bits (set to zero), then ...".

NOW READS:
To "... followed by eight reserved bits (set to zero), then ...".


(327)  1st paragraph;^M
"The zones movie.edu and 249.249.192.in-addr.arpa are defined identically in both zones" 

NOW READS:
"The zones movie.edu and 249.249.192.in-addr.arpa are defined identically in both views".


{365}  3rd paragraph;
In the April 2001 printing, the resulting file from the Bind 9 command:
# dnssec-signkey keyset-movie.edu Kedu.+001+65398.private

"movie.edu.signedkey"

NOW READS:
"signedkey-movie.edu."


(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.


(411)  2nd paragraph;

NOW READS:
"Line 1 shows the version of BIND..." and "Line 2 tells us we're using only one CPU...


{421}  example code; the second (nested) if statement

NOW READS:
if($name) {s/$1/$name/};


{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.