The following reply was made to PR general/2117; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "David J. MacKenzie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Marc Slemko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "David J. MacKenzie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Apache bugs database <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: general/2117: The CIDR syntax support for allow and deny finds the
'/' in comments.
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 16:14:23 -0400 (EDT)
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998 14:02:47 -0600 (MDT), Marc Slemko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> But the complication here is that these can be more than DNS hostnames.
> They can be anything that a systems resolver can grok, and some such
> routines on some systems allow for less stringent naming rules that can
> allow other characters, possibly including '#'; I have no idea offhand.
Do you mean things like NIS+ or NeXT's net-thing?
> Isn't life fun.
It's weirder than I thought.