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34afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Dd June 5, 1993
35afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Dt NETWORKS 5
36afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Os BSD 4.2
37afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Sh NAME
38afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Nm networks
39afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Nd network name data base
40afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Sh DESCRIPTION
41afe61c15SRodney W. GrimesThe
42afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Xr networks
43afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesfile contains information regarding
44afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesthe known networks which comprise the
45afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Tn DARPA
46afe61c15SRodney W. GrimesInternet.
47afe61c15SRodney W. GrimesFor each network a single line should be present with the following information:
48afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Bd -unfilled -offset indent
49afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesofficial network name
50afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesnetwork number
51afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesaliases
52afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Ed
53afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Pp
54afe61c15SRodney W. GrimesItems are separated by any number of blanks and/or tab characters.
55afe61c15SRodney W. GrimesA ``#'' indicates the beginning of a comment; characters up to the end of
56afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesthe line are not interpreted by routines which search the file.
57afe61c15SRodney W. GrimesThis file is normally created from the official network data base
58afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesmaintained at the Network Information Control Center
59afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Pq Tn NIC ,
60afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesthough local
61afe61c15SRodney W. Grimeschanges may be required to bring it up to date regarding unofficial aliases
62afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesand/or unknown networks.
63afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Pp
64afe61c15SRodney W. GrimesNetwork number may be specified in the conventional
65afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes``.''  (dot) notation using the
66afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Xr inet_network 3
67afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesroutine
68afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesfrom the Internet address manipulation library,
69afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Xr inet 3 .
70afe61c15SRodney W. GrimesNetwork names may contain any printable character other than a field
71afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesdelimiter, newline, or comment character.
72afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Sh FILES
73afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Bl -tag -width /etc/networks -compact
74afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.It Pa /etc/networks
75afe61c15SRodney W. GrimesThe
76afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Nm networks
77afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesfile resides in
78afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Pa /etc .
79afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.El
80afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Sh SEE ALSO
81afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Xr getnetent 3
82afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Sh BUGS
83afe61c15SRodney W. GrimesA name server should be used instead of a static file.
84afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Sh HISTORY
85afe61c15SRodney W. GrimesThe
86afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Nm
87afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesfile format appeared in
88afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes.Bx 4.2 .
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