htable(1M) System Administration Commands htable(1M)NAMEhtable - convert DoD Internet format host table
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/htable filename
DESCRIPTIONhtable converts a host table in the format specified by RFC 952 to the
format used by the network library routines. Three files are created
as a result of running htable: hosts, networks, and gateways. The hosts
file is used by the gethostbyname(3NSL) routines in mapping host names
to addresses. The networks file is used by the getnetbyname(3SOCKET)
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 is prepended to
the output file without interpretation. This allows sites to maintain
local aliases and entries which are not normally present in the master
database.
htable is best used in conjunction with the gettable(1M) program which
retrieves the DoD Internet host table from a host.
FILES
localhosts
localnetworks
localgateways
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
│ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Availability │system/network/nis │
└─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
SEE ALSOgettable(1M), gethostbyname(3NSL), getnetbyname(3SOCKET), attributes(5)
Harrenstien, Ken, Mary Stahl, and Elizabeth Feinler, DoD Internet Host
Table Specification, RFC 952, Network Information Center, SRI Interna‐
tional, Menlo Park, California, October 1985.
NOTEShtable does not properly calculate the gateways file.
SunOS 5.11 14 Sep 1992 htable(1M)