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The file maps Ethernet addresses to host names.
Lines consist of an address and a host name, separated by any number of
blanks and/or tab characters. A ‘‘#’’ indicates the beginning of a comment;
characters up to the end of the line are not interpreted by routines which
search the file. Ethernet addresses are expressed as six hexadecimal numbers
separated by colons. The functions described in and can read and produce
this format.
The file resides in
A name server should
be used instead of a static file.
The file format was adopted from
SunOS and appeared in NetBSD 0.9b.
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