A Look at Various Other Network Configuration Files
We've already seen just about all the files that contain network configuration information that you're ever likely to need to work with. There are, however, still a few more files worth listing and briefly describing. This doesn't count config files for major network services, though; we'll cover those in later chapters.
Most of these files have man pages; simply use man <filename>, without the path, to view it—for example, man inetd.conf.
/etc/networks: As we'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 security rules for responding to connections of various ...
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