The following reply was made to PR general/2117; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Marc Slemko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "David J. MacKenzie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: 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 14:50:34 -0600 (MDT) On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, David J. MacKenzie wrote: > 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? Yes, among others. It is possible NT does similar things as well, but I don't know if they are integrated in the resolver calls we are using there. > > > Isn't life fun. > > It's weirder than I thought. >
