hosts(5) [minix man page]

HOSTS(5)							File Formats Manual							  HOSTS(5)

NAME

       hosts - hostname to IP address database

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/hosts

DESCRIPTION

       The  hosts  database  lists the IP addresses and the hostnames that translate to these IP addresses.  It is used by nonamed(8) in a network
       without name servers.  A simple /etc/hosts may look like this:

	      127.0.0.1      localhost
	      192.9.200.1    darask
	      192.9.200.2    burask

       The localhost entry lists a special address that refers to the local host itself (a kind of /dev/tty for hosts.)  You should only  list	it
       if nonamed needs it!  The other entries are actual machines.  The file may contain comments marked with '#'.

       You  can  have  aliases	(more  hostnames on the same line), but it is not recommended, because nonamed can't present them to the system as
       CNAME records.  An often seen form like

	      192.9.200.1    darask.home.cs.vu.nl  darask

       is harmless though, and has the small advantage that you can use the short name in /etc/ethers so rarpd can match it at boot time.

FILES

       /etc/hosts     Hosts database.

SEE ALSO

       ethers(5), nonamed(8), rarpd(8), boot(8).

AUTHOR

       Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)

																	  HOSTS(5)

ethers(4)						     Kernel Interfaces Manual							 ethers(4)

NAME

       ethers - Database that maps Ethernet addresses to hostnames

DESCRIPTION

       The  /etc/ethers file is used in conjunction with the reverse address resolution protocol daemon (rarpd) to map Ethernet addresses to host-
       names.  It contains information about the known (48-bit) Ethernet addresses of hosts on the Internet.

       For each host on an Ethernet, a single line should be present in the file with the following information:

       Ethernet-address        official-host-name

       Items are separated by one or more spaces or tabs.  A number sign (#) indicates the beginning of a comment that extends to the end of line.

       The standard form for Ethernet addresses is:

       x:x:x:x:x:x

       The x is a hexadecimal number between 0 and ff, representing 1 byte.  The address bytes are always in network order.

       Hostnames can contain any printable character other than a space, tab, newline, or number sign (#).

       Hostnames in the /etc/ethers file should correspond to the hostnames in the /etc/hosts file or to those provided by the name service.

EXAMPLES

       The following is a sample ethers file:

       08:00:20:01:e5:1c       host1	    #  Comments  go  here  08:00:20:01:d0:4c	    host2	  #  Comments  go  here  08:00:20:01:e0:1d
       host3	    # Comments go here 08:00:20:00:c2:4e       host4	    # Comments go here

RELATED INFORMATION

       Commands: rarpd(8)

       Files: hosts(4), packetfilter(7)

       Routines: ethers(3) delim off

																	 ethers(4)