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@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ subdomain of the "com" domain would be represented as "monet.example.com".
Each element of the hostname must be from 1 to 63 characters long and the
entire hostname, including the dots, can be at most 253 characters long.
Valid characters for hostnames are
-.BR ASCII (7)
+.MR ASCII 7
letters from
.I a
to
@@ -34,15 +34,15 @@ A hostname may not start with a hyphen.
Hostnames are often used with network client and server programs,
which must generally translate the name to an address for use.
(This task is generally performed by either
-.BR getaddrinfo (3)
+.MR getaddrinfo 3
or the obsolete
-.BR gethostbyname (3).)
+.MR gethostbyname 3 .)
.P
Hostnames are resolved by the NSS framework in glibc according
to the
.B hosts
configuration in
-.BR nsswitch.conf (5).
+.MR nsswitch.conf 5 .
The DNS-based name resolver
(in the
.B dns
@@ -76,14 +76,14 @@ lithium.cchem.com will not be tried, as there is only one component
remaining from the local domain.
The search path can be changed from the default
by a system-wide configuration file (see
-.BR resolver (5)).
+.MR resolver 5 ).
.SH SEE ALSO
-.BR getaddrinfo (3),
-.BR gethostbyname (3),
-.BR nsswitch.conf (5),
-.BR resolver (5),
-.BR mailaddr (7),
-.BR named (8)
+.MR getaddrinfo 3 ,
+.MR gethostbyname 3 ,
+.MR nsswitch.conf 5 ,
+.MR resolver 5 ,
+.MR mailaddr 7 ,
+.MR named 8
.P
.UR http://www.ietf.org\:/rfc\:/rfc1123.txt
IETF RFC\ 1123