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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1983 The Regents of the University of California. |
| 2 | .\" All rights reserved. | |
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4 | .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted |
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| 8 | .\" distribution and use acknowledge that the software was developed | |
| 9 | .\" by the University of California, Berkeley. The name of the | |
| 10 | .\" University may not be used to endorse or promote products derived | |
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16 | .\" @(#)gettable.8 6.3 (Berkeley) %G% |
| 17 | .\" | |
| 18 | .TH GETTABLE 8 "" | |
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19 | .UC 5 |
| 20 | .SH NAME | |
| 21 | gettable \- get NIC format host tables from a host | |
| 22 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 23 | .B /etc/gettable | |
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24 | [ |
| 25 | .B \-v | |
| 26 | ] | |
| 769112e4 | 27 | .I host |
| 5261b095 | 28 | [ outfile ] |
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29 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
| 30 | .I Gettable | |
| 31 | is a simple program used to obtain the NIC standard | |
| 32 | host tables from a ``nicname'' server. The indicated | |
| 33 | .I host | |
| 34 | is queried for the tables. The tables, if retrieved, | |
| 35 | are placed in the file | |
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36 | .I outfile |
| 37 | or by default, | |
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38 | .IR hosts.txt . |
| 39 | .PP | |
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40 | The |
| 41 | .B \-v | |
| 42 | option will get just the version number instead of the complete host table | |
| 43 | and put the output in the file | |
| 44 | .I outfile | |
| 45 | or by default, | |
| 46 | .IR hosts.ver . | |
| 47 | .PP | |
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48 | .I Gettable |
| 49 | operates by opening a TCP connection to the port indicated | |
| 50 | in the service specification for ``nicname''. A request | |
| 51 | is then made for ``ALL'' names and the resultant information | |
| 52 | is placed in the output file. | |
| 53 | .PP | |
| 54 | .I Gettable | |
| 55 | is best used in conjunction with the | |
| 56 | .IR htable (8) | |
| 57 | program which converts the NIC standard file format to | |
| 58 | that used by the network library lookup routines. | |
| 59 | .SH "SEE ALSO" | |
| 0d6797a3 | 60 | intro(3), htable(8), named(8) |
| 769112e4 | 61 | .SH BUGS |
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62 | If the name-domain system provided network name mapping well as host |
| 63 | name mapping, | |
| 64 | .I gettable | |
| 65 | would no longer be needed. |