A Look at Other Network Configuration Files
You’ve already seen just about all the files containing network configuration information you’re ever likely to need to work with. However, a few more files are still worth listing and briefly describing. This doesn’t count config files for major network services, though; we’ll cover those in Chapter 26, “Configuring a Web Server,” and Chapter 32.
Most of these files have man pages; simply use man filename, without the path, to view them (for example, man inetd.conf). Here’s a description of the files:
/etc/networks— As you’ve already seen, this file contains symbolic names for subnets that you might want to use in places such as the routing table.
/etc/hosts.allow— This is a listing of fairly complex ...
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