Errata

Building Internet Firewalls

Errata for Building Internet Firewalls

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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
Printed
Page 187
reprinted to correct obscured Figure 6-13. The figure should resemble

Figure 6-12, with these differences:

- the "Attacker" box should read "TCP 25"
- the lines should be labelled 7 and 8

 Anonymous    Sep 01, 1998
Printed
Page 243

In para. 2, line 6, the text used to read:

"...the standard UNIX library allow you to create ..."
It now reads:

"...the standard UNIX library would allow you to create ..."

 Anonymous    Apr 01, 1999
Printed
Page 283
Added a space in the line between

tiger.somebody.net.
and
root.tiger.somebody.net.

 Anonymous    Apr 01, 1999
Printed
Page 283

The first line of code currently reads:

"...tiger.somebody.net. root.tiger.somebody.net. ("

It should read:

"...tiger.somebody.net.root. tiger.somebody.net. ("


 Anonymous   
Printed
Page 328
In this case, the proxy servers wouldn't be able to cut and

paste out of their electronic mail when people tell them about cool
new things. It now reads:

"proxy servers"

Should read:

"users"

 Anonymous   
Printed
Page 328

Further up it reads:

"so we'll take advantage of that"

Should read:

"so we could take advantage of that"

because the decision has not yet been made at that point.

 Anonymous   
Printed
Page 453
line -3: changed URL to http://www.clark.net/pub/mjr/pubs/fwfaq

Anonymous    Nov 01, 1997
Printed
Page 520
added the following to the end of the next-to-last para.

Whenever possible, our books use RepKover (tm), a durable and
flexible lay-flat binding. If the page count exceeds RepKover's limit,
perfect binding is used.

 Anonymous    Nov 01, 1997