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NETWORKS(5)		  Linux System Administration		   NETWORKS(5)

NAME
       networks - network name information

DESCRIPTION
       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.	 If a line contains a hash mark (#), the  hash	mark  and  the
       remaining part of the line are ignored.

       The field descriptions are:

       name   The symbolic name for the network.

       number The official number for this network in dotted-decimal notation.
	      The trailing ".0" may be omitted.

       aliases
	      Optional aliases for the network.

       This file is read by route or netstat utilities.	 Only Class A, B or  C
       networks	 are  supported, partitioned networks (i.e. network/26 or net‐
       work/28) are not supported by this facility.

FILES
       /etc/networks
	      The networks definition file.

SEE ALSO
       getnetbyaddr(3), getnetbyname(3), getnetent(3), route(8), netstat(8)

COLOPHON
       This page is part of release 3.27 of the Linux  man-pages  project.   A
       description  of	the project, and information about reporting bugs, can
       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

GNU/Linux			  2001-12-22			   NETWORKS(5)

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