HOST_ALIASES(5)

NAME
host_aliases - xxQS_NAMExx host aliases file format

DESCRIPTION
All xxQS_NAMExx components use a hostname resolving service provided by the communication library to identify hosts via a unique hostname. The communication library itself references standard UNIX directory services such as DNS, NIS and /etc/hosts to resolve hostnames. In rare cases these standard services cannot be setup cleanly and xxQS_NAMExx communication daemons running on different hosts are unable to automatically determine a unique hostname for one or all hosts which can be used on all hosts. In such situations a xxQS_NAMExx host aliases file can be used to provide the communication daemons with a private and consistent hostname resolution database.

The location for the host aliases file is <xxqs_name_sxx_root>/<cell>/common/host_aliases.

FORMAT
For each host a single line must be provided with a blank, comma or semicolon separated list of hostname aliases. The first alias is defined to be the unique hostname which will be used by all xxQS_NAMExx components using the hostname aliasing service of the communication library.

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