Errata for DNS and BIND

The first sentence of the "Quotations" section now reads: "The Lewis Carroll quotations that begin each chapter are from the Millennium Fulcrum Edition 2.9 of the Project Gutenberg electronic text of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking- Glass." However, the quotations from Through the Looking Glass are actually from the Millennium Fulcrum Edition 1.7 of the Project Gutenberg electronic text.

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The second sentence in the fourth full paragraph did read: "...for querying the InterNIC's database." Now reads: "...for querying the InterNIC's database (see Figure 3-1)."

The fifth paragraph did read: "Click on search, and you'll see a screen like Figure 3-1.*" Now reads: "Click on search, and you'll see a screen like Figure 3-2.*"

to Figure 3-3.

be to Figure 3-4. The last sentence of this paragraph has been deleted.

The location bar in Figure 3-1 did read: "http://www.internic.net/wp/whois.html" Now reads: "http://www.internic.net/whois.html"

"..the behavior of the 8.1.2 DNS resolver..."

"...DNS 8..." "...including DNS 8.1.2," "With any DNS resolver..." (should be "With any BIND resolver...") "The DNS 4.8.3 search list" (title) "With DNS 4.8.3 resolvers," "...nearly identical to the DNS 4.9 resolver." (footnote) "One reason older DNS resolvers..." (footnote)

"With DNS 4.9..." "In DNS 4.8.3..."

"...update your resolver to DNS version 4.9 or later..." (note) "For example, under DNS 4.9 or DNS 8..." (note)

"However, since name servers before DNS 4.9..." "...that can cause problems with DNS..."

"The behavior of older version of DNS..."

"The options directive was introduced with DNS 4.9..."

"If you're just moving to a DNS 4.9.3 or 4.9.4 resolver,"

"...based on DNS 4.8.1." "...installing the DNS 8.1.2 resolver routines..." "...based on the DNS 4.8.3 resolver."

"...doesn't work quite the same way it does with DNS;"

"...is based on the DNS 4.8.3 resolver,"

"...update Solaris 2.5 and 2.5.1 to DNS 4.9.3..."

"...are based on DNS 4.8.3,"

"...also supports the DNS 4.9.3 search list..." "...is based on DNS 4.9.3..." "...were based on DNS 4.8.3..."

"...is based on the DNS 4.9.3 resolver."

"...to bring the server up to DNS 4.9.4."

"...ships with a DNS 4.9.6 resolver..." "...is in turn based on DNS 4.8.3."

location." Should read: "Here is an example of how to change its location."

"he was going a journey" should be "he was going on a journey"

The sixth line of the 1st paragraph now reads: "alias or a canonical name..." Should read: "alias or a canonical (official) name..." {Appendix A} All instances of "class ttl" should be changed to "ttl class". While <rr> contents can take either of the following forms: [<TTL>] [<class>] <type> <RDATA> [<class>] [<TTL>] <type> <RDATA> we use the first form in the book's examples and should be consistent in the appendix.