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HOSTS(5)							      HOSTS(5)

NAME
       hosts - hostname to IP address database

SYNOPSIS
       /etc/hosts

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

	      10.0.0.1	     flotsam
	      10.0.0.2	     jetsam

       These two entries give names to two IP addresses.  The file may contain
       comments marked with '#'.

       You can have aliases (more hostnames  on	 the  same  line)  to  give  a
       machine more than one name, like www, if you run a web server on one.

       If  your	 PC  is	 Internet  connected  then  you	 can  specify the name
       server(s) to get more information from with %nameserver entries:

	      172.16.24.3    %nameserver    # dns1.example.com
	      172.16.24.6    %nameserver    # dns2.example.com

       Read nonamed(8) for all the details on special host file	 entries  that
       configure  nonamed  for	use on the Internet, and on home machines that
       are occasionally connected to the Internet.

FILES
       /etc/hosts     Hosts database.

SEE ALSO
       ethers(5), nonamed(8), dhcpd(8), boot(8).

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

								      HOSTS(5)
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