NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | EXAMPLES | FILES | ATTRIBUTES | SEE ALSO
/etc/hosts
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.
Here is a typical line from the /etc/hosts file:
192.33.15.149 raga # ChorusOS target |
/etc/hosts
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
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Interface Stability | Evolving |
NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | EXAMPLES | FILES | ATTRIBUTES | SEE ALSO