The man file for hosts.cfg describes the .default. option and explicitly states which tags are accepted. I have observed that with 4.3.17, delayred and delayyellow are also accepted. I don't object at all to having them accepted, but the documentation and the code should be reconciled.

(I have not investigated 4.3.19 to see if this has already been done)

As of 4.3.17, the man file says:

NOTE: The ".default." host entry will only accept the following tags - others are silently ignored: NOCOLUMNS COMMENT DESCR CLASS dialup testip nonongreen nodisp noinfo notrends TRENDS NOPROPRED NOPROPYELLOW NOPROPPURPLE NOPROPACK REPORTTIME WARNPCT NET noclear nosslcert ssldays DOWNTIME depends noping noconn trace notrace HIDEHTTP browser pulldata

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