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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference
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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference

by Janice Winsor
September 2000
Beginner content levelBeginner
1312 pages
33h 47m
English
Pearson
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htable — Convert DoD Internet Format Host Table

Synopsis

/usr/sbin/htable filename
					

Description

Use the htable command to convert a host table in the format specified by RFC 952 to the format used by the network library routines. htable creates the hosts, networks, and gateways files. The hosts file is used by the gethostbyname(3N) routines in mapping host names to addresses. The networks file is used by the getnetbyname(3N) routines in mapping network names to numbers. The gateways file is used by the routing daemon to identify passive Internet gateways.

If any of the files localhosts, localnetworks, or localgateways are present in the current directory, the file's contents are prepended to the output file without interpretation to enable sites ...

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