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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?><section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:ns5="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:ns4="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:ns3="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:ns2="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:ns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xml:id="drakhosts" version="5.0">
  <info>
    <title xml:id="drakhosts-ti1">Hosts definitions</title>

    <subtitle>drakhosts</subtitle>
  </info>

  <mediaobject>
    <imageobject>
      <imagedata revision="1" align="center" fileref="drakhosts.png" format="PNG" xml:id="drakhosts-im1"/>
    </imageobject>
  </mediaobject>

  <para>If some systems on your network grant you services, and have fixed
  IP-addresses, this tool<footnote>
      <para>You can start this tool from the command line, by typing <emphasis role="bold">drakhosts</emphasis> as root.</para>
    </footnote> allows to specify a name to access them more easily. Then you
  can use that name instead of the IP-address.</para>

  <para><guibutton>Add</guibutton></para>

  <para>With this button, you add the name for a new system. You will get a
  window to specify the IP-address, the host name for the system, and
  optionally an alias which can be used in the same way that the name
  is.</para>

  <para><guibutton>Modify</guibutton></para>

  <para>You can access the parameters of an entry previously defined. You get
  the same window.</para>

  <para/>
</section>