# Reference
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## Table of Contents
**Resource types**
* [`host`](#host): Installs and manages host entries. For most systems, these entries will just be in `/etc/hosts`, but some systems (notably OS X) will have d
## Resource types
### host
Installs and manages host entries. For most systems, these
entries will just be in `/etc/hosts`, but some systems (notably OS X)
will have different solutions.
#### Properties
The following properties are available in the `host` type.
##### `ensure`
Valid values: present, absent
The basic property that the resource should be in.
Default value: present
##### `ip`
The host's IP address, IPv4 or IPv6.
##### `host_aliases`
Any aliases the host might have. Multiple values must be
specified as an array.
##### `comment`
A comment that will be attached to the line with a # character.
##### `target`
The file in which to store service information. Only used by
those providers that write to disk. On most systems this defaults to `/etc/hosts`.
#### Parameters
The following parameters are available in the `host` type.
##### `name`
namevar
The host name.
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