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diff --git a/man5/hosts.5 b/man5/hosts.5 index 7e17814..b01c346 100644 --- a/man5/hosts.5 +++ b/man5/hosts.5 @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ .\" Minor polishing, aeb .\" Modified, 2002-06-16, Mike Coleman .\" -.TH hosts 5 2023-05-03 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.TH hosts 5 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7" .SH NAME hosts \- static table lookup for hostnames .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -21,10 +21,10 @@ with hostnames, one line per IP address. For each host a single line should be present with the following information: .RS -.PP +.P IP_address canonical_hostname [aliases...] .RE -.PP +.P The IP address can conform to either IPv4 or IPv6. Fields of the entry are separated by any number of blanks and/or tab characters. @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ shorter hostnames, or generic hostnames (for example, .IR localhost ). If required, a host may have two separate entries in this file; one for each version of the Internet Protocol (IPv4 and IPv6). -.PP +.P The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) Server implements the Internet name server for UNIX systems. It augments or replaces the @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ It augments or replaces the file or hostname lookup, and frees a host from relying on .I /etc/hosts being up to date and complete. -.PP +.P In modern systems, even though the host table has been superseded by DNS, it is still widely used for: .TP @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ except in cases where the file is cached by applications. .SS Historical notes RFC\ 952 gave the original format for the host table, though it has since changed. -.PP +.P Before the advent of DNS, the host table was the only way of resolving hostnames on the fledgling Internet. Indeed, this file could be @@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ ff02::2 ip6\-allrouters .BR resolver (5), .BR hostname (7), .BR named (8) -.PP +.P Internet RFC\ 952 .\" .SH AUTHOR .\" This manual page was written by Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>, |