The following reply was made to PR general/2117; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Dean Gaudet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "David J. MacKenzie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: general/2117: The CIDR syntax support for allow and deny finds the '/' in comments. Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 13:07:58 -0700 (PDT) On 22 Apr 1998, David J. MacKenzie wrote: > int ap_hostname_syntax(char *s) > { > for (; *s; s++) { > /* Allow : for IPv6. */ > if (!isalnum(*s) && strchr("_-.:", *s) == NULL) > return 0; > } > return 1; > } _ isn't valid though... I suppose we could do something like bind does with it; complain but allow it. Dean