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Version Location Description Submitted By Corrected
Printed Page xiv

The heading at the bottom of the page used to read:

"We'd Like to Hear from You"

It now reads:

"How to Contact Us"

 Anonymous  Feb 2000
Printed Page xv-xvi
The following information was added to the preface following

the "How to Contact Us" heading:

"You can also send us messages electronically. To be put
on our mailing list or to request a catalog, send email to:

info@ora.com

To ask technical questions or comment on the book, send
email to:

bookquestions@ora.com

We have a web site for the book, where we'll list examples,
errata, and any plans for future editions. You can access
this page at:

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9781565923225/

For more information about this book and others, see the
O'Reilly web site:

http://www.oreilly.com"

The addition of this text threw off the page break for page xvi.

 Anonymous  Feb 2000
Printed Page 5
para. 2, line -3: "less rigid then" changed to "less rigid than"

Anonymous  Aug 1998
Printed Page 29
para. 3, line 4: "172.16.26.32/19" changed to "172.16.26.32/27"

Anonymous  Aug 1998
Printed Page 33
line -2: "need" changed to "needed"

Anonymous  Aug 1998
Printed Page 33
para. 3, line 1

"Originally, the RFCs implied that you should not used subnet numbers
of all 0s or all 1s."

should read

"Originally, the RFCs implied that you should not use subnet numbers
of all 0s or all 1s."

 Anonymous  Dec 1998
Printed Page 44
para. 2, line 1:

cat head -20 /etc/services

now reads:

head -20 /etc/services

 Anonymous  Mar 1999
Printed Page 44
para. 4, line 1:

"Despite its size, the /etc/protocols file ..."

now reads:

"Despite its size, the /etc/services file ..."

 Anonymous  Mar 1999
Printed Page 73
para. 2, line 4: "ARP" changed to "RARP"

Anonymous  Aug 1998
Printed Page 85
indented paragraph "Security": The text "...do not work because the

router changes the addresses..." should be "...do not work because NAT
changes the addresses...".

 Anonymous  Dec 1998
Printed Page 89
line -8: "8 bit" changed to "8 bits"

Anonymous  Aug 1998
Printed Page 89
In line 4 of the last paragraph, changed "253 hosts per subnet" to

"254 hosts per subnet."

 Anonymous  Nov 2000
Printed Page 91
line -4 and line -3

"A network with internal gateways to other subnets and a single gateway
to the world"

should be

"A network with internal gateways to other subnets and one gateway
to the world"

(all on one line and in italics.)

 Anonymous  Dec 1998
Printed Page 147
para. 3, line 2: "connection command-line" changed to

"connect command-line" ("connect" is in bold)

 Anonymous  Aug 1998
Printed Page 166
para. 1, line 3: The interface on the last line of the example output

is '1e0' (one, e, zero) but should be 'le0' (the letter l, e, zero)

 Anonymous  Dec 1998
Printed Page 170

para.5, the netstat -rn outputnow reads:

Routing tables
Destination Gateway Flags Refcnt Use Interface
127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 1 132 lo0
172.16.12.0 172.16.12.2 U 31 686547 le0
172.16.1.2 172.16.12.3 UGHD 0 514 le0
default 172.16.12.1 UG 3 373964 le0

And on page 171:

Routing tables
Destination Gateway Flags Refcnt Use Interface
127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 1 132 lo0
172.16.12.0 172.16.12.2 U 31 686547 le0
172.16.1.2 172.16.12.3 UGHD 1 514 le0
default 172.16.12.1 UG 3 373964 le0
172.16.1.0 172.16.12.3 UG 0 0 le0
172.16.6.0 172.16.12.3 UG 0 0 le0
172.16.3.0 172.16.12.3 UG 0 0 le0
172.16.9.0 172.16.12.3 UG 0 0 le0

 Anonymous  Dec 1998
Printed Page 183
para. 3, line -5: "10 link-state" changed to "8 link-state"

Anonymous  Aug 1998
Printed Page 222
code sample 2, line -3, end of the line

"mail exchanger = peanuts.nuts.com" changed to
"mail exchanger = almond.nuts.com"

 Anonymous  Aug 1998
Printed Page 229
second paragraph from the bottom

"...grants read and write access to almond and peanut..."

changed to

"...grants read and write access to almond and pecan..."

 Anonymous  Dec 1998
Printed Page 236
second paragraph from the bottom: "This auto_master entry

automatically..." changed to "The net entry automatically...".

("net" is in constant-width font.)

 Anonymous  Dec 1998
Printed Page 258
para. 5, description of "Backward compatibility,"

removed first four words: "with Bootstrap Protocol (BOOTP)""
(these words were meant to be an index tag, not part
of the text. The paragraph now begins, "A DHCP ...")

 Anonymous  Aug 1998
Printed Page 259
code sample, line 6

option domain "nuts.com";

now reads:

option domain-name "nuts.com";

 Anonymous  Mar 1999
Printed Page 261
paragraph 4: the text

"...addresses from 172.16.12.50 to 172.16.12.250..."
changed to "...addresses from 172.16.3.50 to 172.16.3.250..."

 Anonymous  Dec 1998
Printed Page 267
para. 2, telnet session example: The POP3 server in this telnet

session shows two different version numbers: 1.004 and 1.001.
Change "Version 1.001" to "Version 1.004".

 Anonymous  Dec 1998
Printed Page 267
bottom: changed "rerun the test using telnet localhost

pop-3" to "rerun the test using telnet localhost pop3".

 Anonymous  Dec 1998
Printed Page 287
bullet item 3, "else ($|); use text2;" split into

two bullet items:
else ($|);
use text2;
("$|" is in constant-width font, and "text2" is in
constant-width italic font.)

 Anonymous  Aug 1998
Printed Page 341
para. 3, line 1: "The three features" changed to

"Three features"

 Anonymous  Aug 1998
Printed Page 403
In the paragraph just before of the section "Words to the

Wise," the last line had an extra period. It used to read:

"internal firewall.."

It now reads:

"internal firewall."

 Anonymous  Feb 2000
Printed Page 420
replaced first full paragraph and example

Retrieve RFCs through e-mail by sending mail to
info@isi.edu. Leave the "Subject:" line blank. Request
the RFC in the body of the e-mail text with the lines Retrieve:
RFC and Doc-ID: RFCnnnn, where nnnn is the RFC
number. In this example, we request RFC 1258.

mail rfc-info@isi.edu
Subject:
Retrieve: RFC
Doc-ID: RFC1258
^D

(In the paragraph, "Retrieve: RFC" and "Doc-ID: RFCnnnn"
are in constant-width, nnnn is in italics the second time.)

 Anonymous  Dec 1998
Printed Page 507
list item 3: "Iorigin" changed to "origin"

("origin" is in constant-width italic font.)

 Anonymous  Aug 1998
Printed Page 526
description of "use-host-decl-names flag;"

changed line 2 from "as its hostname." to
"as the hostname. If flag is "true," the hostname is
supplied to the client. By default, the flag is "false."
("flag" is in constant-width italic font.)

 Anonymous  Aug 1998
Printed Page 527
line -8, description of "option time-off seconds;"

changed "(ETC)" to "(UTC)"

 Anonymous  Aug 1998