On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 4:39 AM Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at 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. -- -john r pierce recycling used bits in santa cruz