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Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man7/hostname.7')
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diff --git a/share/man/man7/hostname.7 b/share/man/man7/hostname.7 index 8cacb7f4d72..13ccd601b63 100644 --- a/share/man/man7/hostname.7 +++ b/share/man/man7/hostname.7 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: hostname.7,v 1.10 2017/05/29 12:13:50 tedu Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: hostname.7,v 1.11 2019/05/12 16:55:11 schwarze Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: hostname.7,v 1.4 1994/11/30 19:07:14 jtc Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1987, 1990, 1993 @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ .\" .\" @(#)hostname.7 8.2 (Berkeley) 12/30/93 .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: May 29 2017 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: May 12 2019 $ .Dt HOSTNAME 7 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -52,19 +52,6 @@ which must generally translate the name to an address for use. Hostnames are resolved by the Internet name resolver in the following fashion. .Pp -If the name consists of a single component, i.e., contains no dot, -and if the environment variable -.Ev HOSTALIASES -is set to the name of a file, -that file is searched for any string matching the input hostname. -The file should consist of lines made up of two whitespace separated strings, -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 the input name ends with a trailing dot, the trailing dot is removed, and the remaining name is looked up with no further processing. |