diff --git a/include/arpa/inet.h b/include/arpa/inet.h
index 9293840399b8e84fc8c34db12d120556fd279c25..fdc501aa0fb8ada87d0bc80b7adf056bcf3724ea 100644
--- a/include/arpa/inet.h
+++ b/include/arpa/inet.h
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ uint32_t ntohl(uint32_t);
 uint16_t ntohs(uint16_t);
 
 in_addr_t inet_addr (const char *);
+in_addr_t inet_network (const char *);
 char *inet_ntoa (struct in_addr);
 int inet_pton (int, const char *__restrict, void *__restrict);
 const char *inet_ntop (int, const void *__restrict, char *__restrict, socklen_t);
diff --git a/src/network/inet_network.c b/src/network/inet_network.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ae60d7f658b8230bd8d23633158d3c1f3013798f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/network/inet_network.c
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#include <sys/socket.h>
+#include <netinet/in.h>
+#include <arpa/inet.h>
+#include "__dns.h"
+
+in_addr_t inet_network(const char *p)
+{
+        struct sockaddr_in sin;
+        if (__ipparse(&sin, AF_INET, p)) return -1;
+        return ntohl(sin.sin_addr.s_addr);
+}