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authorremko <remko@FreeBSD.org>2007-12-08 22:43:16 +0000
committerremko <remko@FreeBSD.org>2007-12-08 22:43:16 +0000
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Improve readability for the hosts.equiv file regarding the notation
of hostnames. PR: docs/35953 Submitted by: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear at blarg dot net> With minor modifications by me.
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diff --git a/share/man/man5/hosts.equiv.5 b/share/man/man5/hosts.equiv.5
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+++ b/share/man/man5/hosts.equiv.5
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd October 13, 2006
+.Dd December 8, 2007
.Dt HOSTS.EQUIV 5
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -80,7 +80,8 @@ indicates the beginning of
a comment; characters up to the end of the line are
not interpreted by routines which search the file.
.Pp
-Host names are specified in the conventional
+Host names are specified in the conventional Internet DNS
+dotted-domains
.Dq .\&
(dot) notation using the
.Xr inet_addr 3
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