On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Jakob Hirsch wrote: > I plea for keeping the syntax requirement of 4 components, but raising an > error if it contains only digits (and is not an IP address).
That's what I plan to do. > | (a) 192.168.1/24 presumably means 192.168.1.0/24 (otherwise what's > | the point of the 1?) > > > That seems to depend - e.g: > > nmap 192.168.1/24 actually scans 192.168.0.0/24 > ^ Oho! So it is expanding the IP address according to the "original rules", getting 192.168.0.1, and then applying the mask. > I don't know what's the point of the 1 - it seems to be ignored. At > least, on Linux. Trying the same on Solaris the 1 *is* obeyed - ie. it > scans 192.168.1.0/24 ! This is more evidence that convinces me that the best thing is to insist on 4 components and give an error for anything else. -- Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714. Get the Exim 4 book: http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
