60 lines
1.4 KiB
Groff
60 lines
1.4 KiB
Groff
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HOSTS(5) Minix Programmer's Manual HOSTS(5)
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NAME
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hosts - hostname to IP address database
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SYNOPSIS
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/etc/hosts
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DESCRIPTION
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The hosts database lists the IP addresses and the hostnames that
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translate to these IP addresses. It is used by nonamed(8) in a network
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without name servers. A simple /etc/hosts may look like this:
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127.0.0.1 localhost
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192.9.200.1 darask
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192.9.200.2 burask
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The localhost entry lists a special address that refers to the local host
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itself (a kind of /dev/tty for hosts.) You should only list it if
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nonamed needs it! The other entries are actual machines. The file may
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contain comments marked with '#'.
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You can have aliases (more hostnames on the same line), but it is not
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recommended, because nonamed can't present them to the system as CNAME
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records. An often seen form like
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192.9.200.1 darask.home.cs.vu.nl darask
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is harmless though, and has the small advantage that you can use the
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short name in /etc/ethers so rarpd can match it at boot time.
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FILES
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/etc/hosts Hosts database.
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SEE ALSO
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ethers(5), nonamed(8), rarpd(8), boot(8).
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AUTHOR
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Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)
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