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For starters, running a net install of Sarge which, I'm guessing because they never say, is the version used by the authors led to errors right from the get-go. One of the first things it says to do after installing the multifunction server is install several packages. Two of which are not installable because they are deprecated and no longer available (libdb3++-dev and xlispstat).

Continuing, the book then goes through the steps of installing a DNS server and provides steps which assume you haven't already built your multifunction system. It could at least let you know that the multifunction server isn't even going to be used for anything.

It also indicates that the reader will be creating a chroot environment for bind to run in. Then doesn't tell the reader to issue the chroot command. I may be wrong in how chroot works but when a book tells you that you will be issuing a command it is generally expected to be listed as a command to run at some point thereafter.

So far, I haven't been able to get past the first three chapters because I've been too confused by how the damn thing has been written. I've had it for nearly three weeks now.