NETWORKS(5) manual page
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networks - network name information
The
file /etc/networks is a plain ASCII file that describes known DARPA networks
and symbolic names for these networks. Each line represents a network and
has the following structure:
name number aliases ...
where the fields are
delimited by spaces or tabs. Empty lines are ignored. The hash character
(#) indicates the start of a comment: this character, and the remaining
characters up to the end of the current line, are ignored by library functions
that process the file.
The field descriptions are:
- name
- The symbolic name
for the network. Network names can contain any printable characters except
white-space characters or the comment character.
- number
- The official number
for this network in numbers-and-dots notation (see inet(3)
). The trailing
".0" (for the host component of the network address) may be omitted.
- aliases
- Optional aliases for the network.
This file is read by the route(8)
and
netstat(8)
utilities. Only Class A, B or C networks are supported, partitioned
networks (i.e., network/26 or network/28) are not supported by this facility.
- /etc/networks
- The networks definition file.
getnetbyaddr(3)
,
getnetbyname(3)
, getnetent(3)
, netstat(8)
, route(8)
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