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32afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.\"     @(#)networks.5	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93
337f3dea24SPeter Wemm.\" $FreeBSD$
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35afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Dd June 5, 1993
36afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Dt NETWORKS 5
373d45e180SRuslan Ermilov.Os
38afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Sh NAME
39afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Nm networks
40afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Nd network name data base
41afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Sh DESCRIPTION
42afe61c15SRodney W. GrimesThe
434b66483fSRuslan Ermilov.Nm
44afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesfile contains information regarding
45afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesthe known networks which comprise the
46afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Tn DARPA
47afe61c15SRodney W. GrimesInternet.
48afe61c15SRodney W. GrimesFor each network a single line should be present with the following information:
49afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Bd -unfilled -offset indent
50afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesofficial network name
51afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesnetwork number
52afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesaliases
53afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Ed
54afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Pp
55afe61c15SRodney W. GrimesItems are separated by any number of blanks and/or tab characters.
56afe61c15SRodney W. GrimesA ``#'' indicates the beginning of a comment; characters up to the end of
57afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesthe line are not interpreted by routines which search the file.
58afe61c15SRodney W. GrimesThis file is normally created from the official network data base
59afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesmaintained at the Network Information Control Center
60afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Pq Tn NIC ,
61afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesthough local
62afe61c15SRodney W. Grimeschanges may be required to bring it up to date regarding unofficial aliases
63afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesand/or unknown networks.
64afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Pp
654043c58eSTim VanderhoekNetwork numbers may be specified in the conventional
66afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes``.'' (dot) notation using the
67afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Xr inet_network 3
68afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesroutine
69afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesfrom the Internet address manipulation library,
70afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Xr inet 3 .
71afe61c15SRodney W. GrimesNetwork names may contain any printable character other than a field
72afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesdelimiter, newline, or comment character.
73afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Sh FILES
74afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Bl -tag -width /etc/networks -compact
75afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.It Pa /etc/networks
76afe61c15SRodney W. GrimesThe
774b66483fSRuslan Ermilov.Nm
78afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesfile resides in
79afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Pa /etc .
80afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.El
81afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Sh SEE ALSO
82afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Xr getnetent 3
83afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Sh HISTORY
84afe61c15SRodney W. GrimesThe
85afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Nm
86afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesfile format appeared in
87afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Bx 4.2 .
889cbda590SRuslan Ermilov.Sh BUGS
899cbda590SRuslan ErmilovA name server should be used instead of a static file.
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