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diff --git a/contrib/bind/man/hostname.7 b/contrib/bind/man/hostname.7 deleted file mode 100644 index 255c53cfe44db..0000000000000 --- a/contrib/bind/man/hostname.7 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,108 +0,0 @@ -.\" Copyright (c) 1987 The Regents of the University of California. -.\" All rights reserved. -.\" -.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted -.\" provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are -.\" duplicated in all such forms and that any documentation, -.\" advertising materials, and other materials related to such -.\" distribution and use acknowledge that the software was developed -.\" by the University of California, Berkeley. The name of the -.\" University may not be used to endorse or promote products derived -.\" from this software without specific prior written permission. -.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR -.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED -.\" WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. -.\" -.\" @(#)hostname.7 6.4 (Berkeley) 1/16/90 -.\" -.TH HOSTNAME @DESC_EXT_U@ "February 16, 1994" -.UC 5 -.SH NAME -hostname \- host name resolution description -.SH DESCRIPTION -Hostnames are domains. A domain is a hierarchical, dot-separated list -of subdomains. For example, the machine \fImonet\fP, in the \fIBerkeley\fP -subdomain of the \fIEDU\fP subdomain of the Internet Domain Name System -would be represented as -.br - \fImonet\fP.\fIBerkeley\fP.\fIEDU\fP -.br -(with no trailing dot). -.PP -Hostnames are often used with network client and server programs, -which must generally translate the name to an address for use. -(This task is usually performed by the library routine -.IR gethostbyname (@LIB_NETWORK_EXT@).) -The default method for resolving hostnames by the Internet name resolver is -to follow \s-1RFC\s+1 1535's security recommendations. Actions can be taken -by the administrator to override these recommendations and to have the -resolver behave the same as earlier, non-\s-1RFC\s+1 1535 resolvers. -.PP -The default method (using \s-1RFC\s+1 1535 guidelines) follows: -.PP -If the name consists of a single component, i.e. contains no dot, and if the -environment variable ``\s-1HOSTALIASES\s+1'' is set to the name of a file, -that file is searched for a string matching the input hostname. The file -should consist of lines made up of two strings separated by white-space, the -first of which is the hostname alias, and the second of which is the complete -hostname to be substituted for that alias. If a case-insensitive match is -found between the hostname to be resolved and the first field of a line in -the file, the substituted name is looked up with no further processing. -.PP -If there is at least one dot in the name, then the name is first tried as -is. The number of dots to cause this action is configurable by setting the -threshold using the ``\fIndots\fP'' option in -.I /etc/resolv.conf -(default: \fI1\fP). If the name ends with a dot, the trailing dot is -removed, and the remaining name is looked up (regardless of the setting of -the 'ndots' option) and no further processing is done. -.PP -If the input name does not end with a trailing dot, it is looked up by -searching through a list of domains until a match is found. If neither the -search option in the -.I /etc/resolv.conf -file or the ``\s-1LOCALDOMAIN\s+1'' environment variable is used, then the -search list of domains contains only the full domain specified by the domain -option (in -.IR /etc/resolv.conf ) -or the domain used in the local hostname (see -.IR hostname (@CMD_EXT@) -and -.IR resolver (@FORMAT_EXT@)). -For example, if the ``\fIdomain\fP'' option is set to \fICS.Berkeley.EDU\fP, -then only CS.Berkeley.EDU will be in the search list and will be the only -domain appended to the partial hostname, for example, ``\fIlithium\fP'', -making \fIlithium.CS.Berkeley.EDU\fP the only name to be tried using the -search list. -.PP -If the search option is used in -.I /etc/resolv.conf -or the environment variable, ``\s-1LOCALDOMAIN\s+1'' is set by the user, then -the search list will include what is set by these methods. For -example, if the ``\fIsearch\fP'' option contained -.br - \fICS.Berkeley.EDU CChem.Berkeley.EDU Berkeley.EDU\fP -.br -then the partial hostname (e.g., ``\fIlithium\fP'') will be tried with each -domainname appended (in the same order specified). The resulting hostnames -that would be tried are: -.nf - \fIlithium.CS.Berkeley.EDU\fP - \fIlithium.CChem.Berkeley.EDU\fP - \fIlithium.Berkeley.EDU\fP -.fi -.PP -The environment variable ``\s-1LOCALDOMAIN\s+1'' overrides the -``\fIsearch\fP'' and ``\fIdomain\fP'' options, and if both search and domain -options are present in the resolver configuration file, then only the last -one listed is used (see -.IR resolver (@FORMAT_EXT@)). -.PP -If the name was not previously tried ``as is'' (i.e., it fell below the -``\fIndots\fP'' threshold or did not contain a dot), then the name as -originally provided is attempted. -.SH SEE ALSO -.IR gethostbyname (@LIB_NETWORK_EXT@), -.IR resolver (@FORMAT_EXT@), -.IR mailaddr (@DESC_EXT@), -.IR @INDOT@named (@SYS_OPS_EXT@) |