Specifications

Figure 2.5: YaST2: Conﬁguring the Name Server

consisting of the IP address, the fully qualiﬁed host name, and the host

name (e. g., earth) is entered into the ﬁle. The IP address must be at

the beginning of the line. The entries should be separated by blanks

and tabs. Comments are always preceded by the ‘#’ sign.

# hosts This file describes a number of host name-to-address

# mappings for the TCP/IP subsystem. It is mostly

# used at boot time when no name servers are running.

# On small systems, this file can be used instead of a

# "named" name server. Just add the names, addresses,

# and any aliases to this file.

127.0.0.1 localhost

192.168.0.1 sun.cosmos.com sun

192.168.0.20 earth.cosmos.com earth

# End of hosts

File 1: /etc/hosts

/etc/networks

Here, network names are converted to network addresses. The format

is similar to that of the hosts ﬁle, except the network names precede

the addresses (see File 2).

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