16.62. cdist-type__hosts(7)¶

16.62.1. NAME¶

cdist-type__hosts - manage entries in /etc/hosts

16.62.2. DESCRIPTION¶

Add or remove entries from /etc/hosts file.

16.62.3. OPTIONAL PARAMETERS¶

state: If state is present, make object_id resolve to ip. If state is absent, object_id will no longer resolve via /etc/hosts, if it was previously configured with this type. Manually inserted entries are unaffected.
ip: IP address, to which hostname (=object_id) must resolve. If state is present, this parameter is mandatory, if state is absent, this parameter is silently ignored.
alias: An alias for the hostname. This parameter can be specified multiple times (once per alias).

16.62.4. EXAMPLES¶

# Now `funny' resolves to 192.168.1.76,
__hosts funny --ip 192.168.1.76
# and `happy' no longer resolve via /etc/hosts if it was
# previously configured via __hosts.
__hosts happy --state absent

__hosts srv1.example.com --ip 192.168.0.42 --alias srv1

16.62.5. SEE ALSO¶

hosts(5)

16.62.6. AUTHORS¶

Dmitry Bogatov <KAction@gnu.org>

Dennis Camera <dennis.camera--@--ssrq-sds-fds.ch>

16.62.7. COPYING¶

Copyright (C) 2015-2016 Dmitry Bogatov, 2019 Dennis Camera. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.