15 Jun
2020
15 Jun
'20
5:54 p.m.
On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 4:39 AM Stephen John Smoogen smooge@gmail.com wrote:
This is an archaic file which is equivalent to /etc/hosts and can be used by various network tools instead of DNS. https://linux-audit.com/the-purpose-of-etc-networks/
Other than getent, this file seems to be little use in a default EL7/EL8 system as route and netstat were 'deprecated' and have to be installed outside of default installs.
IIRC, the names in /etc/networks would be used in places like ip.wrappers and NFS exports. The earliest Solaris networks I worked with made pretty extensive use of that archaic kinda stuff.
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