Plugin: hosts

• infos = Information about HOSTS plugin is in keys below
• infos/author = Markus Raab elekt.nosp@m.ra@l.nosp@m.ibele.nosp@m.ktra.nosp@m..org
• infos/licence = BSD
• infos/provides = storage/hosts
• infos/needs =
• infos/recommends = glob error network
• infos/placements = getstorage setstorage
• infos/status = maintained unittest nodep libc limited
• infos/description = This plugin reads and writes /etc/hosts files.

The /etc/hosts file is a simple text file that associates IP addresses with hostnames, one line per IP address. The format is described in hosts(5).

Special values

Hostnames

Canonical hostnames are stored as key names with the IP address as key value.

Aliases

Aliases are stored as sub keys with a read only duplicate of the associated ip address as value.

Comments

Comments are stored according to the comment metadata specification (see /doc/METADATA.ini for more information)

Multi-Line Comments

Since line breaks are preserved, you can identify multi line comments by their trailing line break.

Restrictions

The ordering of the hosts is stored in metakeys of type "order". The value is an ascending number. Ordering of aliases is NOT preserved.

Examples

Mount the plugin:

$ kdb mount --with-recommends /etc/hosts system/hosts hosts

Print out all known hosts and their aliases:

$ kdb ls system/hosts

Get IP address of ipv4 host "localhost":

$ kdb get system/hosts/ipv4/localhost

Check if a comment is belonging to host "localhost":

$ kdb lsmeta system/hosts/ipv4/localhost

Try to change the host "localhost", should fail because it is not an ipv4 adress:

$ kdb set system/hosts/ipv4/localhost ::1

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Backup-and-Restore:/examples/hosts

sudo kdb mount –with-recommends hosts /examples/hosts hosts #

Create hosts file for testing

# $ echo "127.0.0.1\\tlocalhost" > kdb file /examples/hosts $ echo "::1\\tlocalhost" >> kdb file /examples/hosts #

Check the file

# $ cat kdb file /examples/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost ::1 localhost #

Check if the values are read correctly

# kdb get /examples/hosts/ipv4/localhost 127.0.0.1 kdb get /examples/hosts/ipv6/localhost ::1 #

Should both fail with error 51 and return 5

# kdb set /examples/hosts/ipv4/localhost ::1

RET:5

ERRORS:51

kdb set /examples/hosts/ipv6/localhost 127.0.0.1

RET:5

ERRORS:51

#

cleanup

# kdb rm -r /examples/hosts sudo kdb umount /examples/hosts ```