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=== NAME ===
esmith::HostsDB - interface to esmith hostnames/addresses database
in a root terminal you can do
perldoc -U esmith::HostsDB
=== SYNOPSIS ===
use esmith::HostsDB;
my $hosts = esmith::HostsDB->open;

# everything else works just like esmith::DB::db

# these methods are added
my @hosts = $hosts->hosts;
my @new_hosts = $hosts->propogate_hosts;

=== DESCRIPTION ===
This module provides an abstracted interface to the esmith hosts database.
Unless otherwise noted, esmith::HostsDB acts like esmith::DB::db.

==== Overridden methods ====

===== open =====
Like esmith::DB->open, but if given no $file it will try to open the file in the ESMITH_HOSTS_DB environment variable or hosts.

===== open_ro() =====

Like esmith::DB->open_ro, but if given no $file it will try to open the file in the ESMITH_HOSTS_DB environment variable or hosts.

==== Additional Methods ====

These methods are added be esmith::HostsDB

===== hosts =====
my @hosts = $hosts->hosts;

Returns a list of all host records in the database.

===== propogate_hosts =====
my @new_hosts = $hosts->propogate_hosts($old_name, $new_name);

When the name of your e-smith machine changes, this will change the name of any hosts which also started with $old_name to use the $new_name.

Returns a list of the newly tranlsated host records.

$db->get_hosts_by_domain

Given a domain name (as a string), finds any hosts which match it and return them as a list of record objects.

AUTHOR
SME Server Developers <bugs@e-smith.com>

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