NAME | DESCRIPTION | FILES | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON
NETWORKS(5) Linux System Administration NETWORKS(5)
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 execept 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), route(8), netstat(8)
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GNU/Linux 2008-09-04 NETWORKS(5)