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'\" Copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
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'\" $Header: /sprite/src/man/files/RCS/spritehosts.man,v 1.1 89/02/16 10:04:20 ouster Exp $ SPRITE (Berkeley)
'/"
.so \*(]ltmac.sprite
.HS spritehosts files
.BS
.SH NAME
/etc/spritehosts \- file containing Sprite host information
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
The file \fB/etc/spritehosts\fP is used to keep host information for
hosts in the Sprite network. It contains the following fields:
.IP spriteID 14
A small integer used to identify the host internally.
.IP netType 14
The type of the physical network for the following \fBnetAddr\fP field.
.IP netAddr 14
The physical network address of the host.
.IP inetAddr 14
The Internet address of the host.
.IP machType 14
The machine type of the host. This string will be substituted for
occurrences of \fB$MACHINE\fP that occur in pathnames opened by
this host.
.IP name 14
The official Internet name of this host.
.IP aliases 14
Zero or more aliases, typically shorter than the official Internet name.
.PP
This file is read during startup by the \fBnetroute\fP program
to initialize the kernel's internal route table. Actually, routing
will be done successfully without this initialization. However,
the initialization is needed on servers so they know the machine
type of their clients. Also, error messages from the kernel will
use the host name instead of the spriteID if the initialization
has been done.
.SH SEE ALSO
netroute
.SH KEYWORDS
host, spriteID