MKHOSTS

Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
Updated: May 23, 1986
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NAME

mkhosts - generate hashed host table

SYNOPSIS

/usr/etc/mkhosts [ -v ] hostfile

DESCRIPTION

Mkhosts is used to generated the hashed host database used by one version of the library routines gethostbyaddr() and gethostbyname(). It is not used if host name translation is performed by named(8). If the -v option is supplied, each host will be listed as it is added. The file hostfile is usually /etc/hosts, and in any case must be in the format of /etc/hosts (see hosts(5)). Mkhosts will generate database files named hostfile.pag and hostfile.dir. The new database is build in a set of temporary files and only replaces the real database if the new one is built without errors. Mkhosts will exit with a non-zero exit code if any errors are detected.

FILES

hostfile.pag - real database filenames

hostfile.dir
hostfile.new.pag - temporary database filenames

hostfile.new.dir