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28afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Dd June 5, 1993
29afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Dt NETWORKS 5
303d45e180SRuslan Ermilov.Os
31afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Sh NAME
32afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Nm networks
33afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Nd network name data base
34afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Sh DESCRIPTION
35afe61c15SRodney W. GrimesThe
364b66483fSRuslan Ermilov.Nm
37afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesfile contains information regarding
38afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesthe known networks which comprise the
39afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Tn DARPA
40afe61c15SRodney W. GrimesInternet.
41afe61c15SRodney W. GrimesFor each network a single line should be present with the following information:
42afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Bd -unfilled -offset indent
43afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesofficial network name
44afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesnetwork number
45afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesaliases
46afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Ed
47afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Pp
48afe61c15SRodney W. GrimesItems are separated by any number of blanks and/or tab characters.
49afe61c15SRodney W. GrimesA ``#'' indicates the beginning of a comment; characters up to the end of
50afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesthe line are not interpreted by routines which search the file.
51afe61c15SRodney W. GrimesThis file is normally created from the official network data base
52afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesmaintained at the Network Information Control Center
53afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Pq Tn NIC ,
54afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesthough local
55afe61c15SRodney W. Grimeschanges may be required to bring it up to date regarding unofficial aliases
56afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesand/or unknown networks.
57afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Pp
584043c58eSTim VanderhoekNetwork numbers may be specified in the conventional
59afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes``.'' (dot) notation using the
60afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Xr inet_network 3
61afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesroutine
62afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesfrom the Internet address manipulation library,
63afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Xr inet 3 .
64afe61c15SRodney W. GrimesNetwork names may contain any printable character other than a field
65afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesdelimiter, newline, or comment character.
66afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Sh FILES
67afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Bl -tag -width /etc/networks -compact
68afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.It Pa /etc/networks
69afe61c15SRodney W. GrimesThe
704b66483fSRuslan Ermilov.Nm
71afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesfile resides in
72afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Pa /etc .
73afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.El
74afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Sh SEE ALSO
75afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Xr getnetent 3
76afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Sh HISTORY
77afe61c15SRodney W. GrimesThe
78afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Nm
79afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesfile format appeared in
80afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Bx 4.2 .
819cbda590SRuslan Ermilov.Sh BUGS
829cbda590SRuslan ErmilovA name server should be used instead of a static file.
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