ChorusOS man pages section 4CC: Files

hosts(4CC)

NAME

hosts- host name data base

SYNOPSIS

/etc/hosts

DESCRIPTION

The hosts file contains information regarding the known hosts on the TCP/IP. For each host a single line should be present with the following information:

Internet-address official-host-name aliases

Items are separated by any number of blanks and/or TAB characters. A `#' at the beginning of a line indicates a comment; comments are not interpreted by routines which search the file.

Network addresses are specified using the conventional dot (`.') notation using the inet_addr(3STDC) routine from the Internet address manipulation library, inet(3STDC). Host names may contain any printable character other than a field delimiter, NEWLINE, or comment character.

EXAMPLES

Here is a typical line from the /etc/hosts file:

192.33.15.149        raga           # ChorusOS target

FILES

/etc/hosts

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Interface Stability	Evolving