Module Name: src
Committed By: uwe
Date: Fri Mar 12 10:00:32 UTC 2021
Modified Files:
src/share/man/man5: hosts.5
Log Message:
Retire the paragraph from 1983 that says this file can be "created
from the official host data base maintained at the Network Information
Control Center (NIC)". Suggested by Henry Bent.
To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.13 -r1.14 src/share/man/man5/hosts.5
Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
copyright notices on the relevant files.
Modified files:
Index: src/share/man/man5/hosts.5
diff -u src/share/man/man5/hosts.5:1.13 src/share/man/man5/hosts.5:1.14
--- src/share/man/man5/hosts.5:1.13 Thu Aug 7 10:31:17 2003
+++ src/share/man/man5/hosts.5 Fri Mar 12 10:00:32 2021
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: hosts.5,v 1.13 2003/08/07 10:31:17 agc Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: hosts.5,v 1.14 2021/03/12 10:00:32 uwe Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -81,19 +81,6 @@ These include address for the local inte
.Xr ifconfig 8
needs at boot time and a few machines on the local network.
.Pp
-This file may be created from the official host
-data base maintained at the Network Information Control
-Center
-.Pq Tn NIC ,
-though local changes may be required
-to bring it up to date regarding unofficial aliases
-and/or unknown hosts. As the data base maintained at
-.Tn NIC
-is incomplete, use of the name server is recommended for
-sites on the
-.Tn DARPA
-Internet.
-.Pp
As network addresses, both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are allowed.
IPv4 addresses are specified in the conventional dot
.Pq Dq \&.
