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    NAME

    hosts - The static table lookup for hostnames
     
    

    SYNOPSIS

    /etc/hosts  

    DESCRIPTION

    This manual page describes the format of the /etc/hosts file. This file is a simple text file that associates IP addresses with hostnames, one line per IP address. For each host a single line should be present with the following information:

    IP_address canonical_hostname [aliases...]

    Fields of the entry are separated by any number of blanks and/or tab characters. Text from a "#" character until the end of the line is a comment, and is ignored. Host names may contain only alphanumeric characters, minus signs ("-"), and periods ("."). They must begin with an alphabetic character and end with an alphanumeric character. Optional aliases provide for name changes, alternate spellings, shorter hostnames, or generic hostnames (for example, localhost).

    The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) Server implements the Internet name server for Unix systems. It augments or replaces the /etc/hosts file or hostname lookup, and frees a host from relying on /etc/hosts being up to date and complete.

    In modern systems, even though the host table has been superseded by DNS, it is still widely used for:

    bootstrapping
    Most systems have a small host table containing the name and address information for important hosts on the local network. This is useful when DNS is not running, for example during system bootup.
    NIS
    Sites that use NIS use the host table as input to the NIS host database. Even though NIS can be used with DNS, most NIS sites still use the host table with an entry for all local hosts as a backup.
    isolated nodes
    Very small sites that are isolated from the network use the host table instead of DNS. If the local information rarely changes, and the network is not connected to the Internet, DNS offers little advantage.
     

    FILES

    /etc/hosts  

    NOTES

    Modifications to this file normally take effect immediately, except in cases where the file is cached by applications.  

    Historical Notes

    RFC 952 gave the original format for the host table, though it has since changed.

    Before the advent of DNS, the host table was the only way of resolving hostnames on the fledgling Internet. Indeed, this file could be created from the official host data base maintained at the Network Information Control Center (NIC), though local changes were often required to bring it up to date regarding unofficial aliases and/or unknown hosts. The NIC no longer maintains the hosts.txt files, though looking around at the time of writing (circa 2000), there are historical hosts.txt files on the WWW. I just found three, from 92, 94, and 95.  

    EXAMPLE

    127.0.0.1       localhost
    192.168.1.10    foo.mydomain.org       foo
    192.168.1.13    bar.mydomain.org       bar
    146.82.138.7    master.debian.org      master
    209.237.226.90  www.opensource.org
    
     

    SEE ALSO

    hostname(1), resolver(3), resolver(5), hostname(7), named(8), Internet RFC 952  

    COLOPHON

    This page is part of release 3.14 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.


     

    Index

    NAME
    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    FILES
    NOTES
    Historical Notes
    EXAMPLE
    SEE ALSO
    COLOPHON


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