NAME
ethers —
Ethernet host name database
DESCRIPTION
Theethers file maps Ethernet addresses to host names.
Lines consist of an address and a host name, separated by any number of blanks
and/or tab characters. A ‘#’ indicates
the beginning of a comment; characters up to the end of the line are not
interpreted by routines which search the file.
Ethernet addresses are expressed as six hexadecimal numbers separated by colons. The functions described in ether_aton(3) can read and produce this format.
FILES
- /etc/ethers
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
The ethers file format was adopted from
SunOS and appeared in NetBSD 0.9b.
BUGS
A name server should be used instead of a static file.
Lines in /etc/ethers are limited to
BUFSIZ characters (currently 1024). Longer lines
will be ignored.