htable(1M)                                                System Administration Commands                                                htable(1M)

NAME

       htable - convert DoD Internet format host table

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/sbin/htable filename

DESCRIPTION

       htable  converts  a host table in the format specified by RFC 952 to the format used by the network library routines.  Three files are cre-
       ated 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 mas-
       ter 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                 |SUNWnisu                     |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       gettable(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 International, Menlo Park, California, October 1985.

NOTES

       htable does not properly calculate the gateways file.

SunOS 5.10                                                          14 Sep 1992                                                         htable(1M)