opensolaris man page for gettable

gettable(1M)						  System Administration Commands					      gettable(1M)

NAME
       gettable - get DoD Internet format host table from a host

SYNOPSIS
       /usr/sbin/gettable host

DESCRIPTION
       gettable  is  a	simple program used to obtain the DoD Internet host table from a "hostname" server. The specified  host is queried for the
       table. The table is placed in the file hosts.txt.

       gettable operates by opening a TCP connection to the port indicated in the service specification for "hostname". A request is then made for
       all names and the resultant information is placed in the output file.

       gettable is best used in conjunction with the htable(1M) program which converts the DoD Internet host table format to that used by the net-
       work library lookup routines.

ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWnisu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO
       htable(1M), attributes(5) Harrenstien, Ken, Mary Stahl, and Elizabeth Feinler,  HOSTNAME Server, RFC 953, Network Information  Center,  SRI
       International, Menlo Park, California, October 1985.

NOTES
       Should allow requests for only part of the database.

SunOS 5.11							    14 Sep 1992 						      gettable(1M)