diff --git a/docs/reference/content/tutorials/connect/authenticating.md b/docs/reference/content/tutorials/connect/authenticating.md
index e31d290d33..5054027946 100644
--- a/docs/reference/content/tutorials/connect/authenticating.md
+++ b/docs/reference/content/tutorials/connect/authenticating.md
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ For more information, refer to the MongoDB manual
 
 [MongoDB Enterprise](http://www.mongodb.com/products/mongodb-enterprise) supports proxy authentication through a Kerberos service. The Node.js driver supports Kerberos on UNIX via the MIT Kerberos library and on Windows via the SSPI API.
 
-To connect using the X.509 authentication mechanism, specify ``authMechanism=GSSAPI`` as the mechanism in the [URI connection string](https://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/connection-string/). Specify the user principal and the service name in the connection string.  Use `enodeURIComponent` to encode the user principal string.
+To connect using the GSSAPI authentication mechanism, specify ``authMechanism=GSSAPI`` as the mechanism in the [URI connection string](https://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/connection-string/). Specify the user principal and the service name in the connection string.  Use `enodeURIComponent` to encode the user principal string.
 
 The following example connects to MongoDB using Kerberos for UNIX.
 
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ const server = "mongo-server.example.com";
 const principal = "drivers@KERBEROS.EXAMPLE.COM";
 const urlEncodedPrincipal = encodeURIComponent(principal);
 
-const url = `mongodb://${urlEncodedPrincipal}@${server}?authMechanism=GSSAPI&gssapiServiceName=mongodb`;
+const url = `mongodb://${urlEncodedPrincipal}@${server}/?authMechanism=GSSAPI&gssapiServiceName=mongodb`;
 
 const client = new MongoClient(url);