On Sun, 14 Jun 2020 at 19:55, Jay Hart <jhart at kevla.org> wrote: > I am having some network connectivity issues that manifest itself through > ping, wget, dnf, etc. > The symptoms are intermittent ability to ping, was wget, or connect to > repositories. > > Where this inquiry is going is: If your internal network is using > 192.168.1 or 10..50.10, what > should be in /etc/networks. > > My current file contains: > > default 0.0.0.0 > loopback 127.0.0.0 > link-local 169.254.0.0 > > And I'm pretty sure this is the default OS installed contents. > > I don't think this is related to my connectivity issue, just curious about > what this file does. > > My old server (which is working just fine) has the same content in its > /etc/networks file so not > configuring this does not seem to matter one way or the other. > > If one were using 192.168.1.x network , assume 'default' should be > 192.168.1.0. 'Link-local' > should match??? > > 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. > Thanks, > > Jay > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Stephen J Smoogen.