This time Adolfo Bello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> becomes daring and writes:
> On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 03:50, Vox wrote: > >> 0.0.0.0 = any >> >> On TCP/IP networking, 0 as any octet of an IP is, for all purposes, >> a universal globing. That's why I hate people who set their LANs to >> use 192.168.0.x as their IPs...it drives me crazy, even if it's >> valid :) >> >> Vox > Hi Vox: > > I don't know if I understood what you meant by universal globing and why > you hate 0 in IPs. > > As long as 0 is not the ending octet, it has no special meaning in IP > addresses. The same applies to 255, or to any power of 2 number. I know a non-ending 0 octet loses its special meaning...it's just that I've always seen a 0 octet much as a * and it takes me a few seconds to stop seeing it like that when I'm reading IPs on logs or stuff like that. Let's call it a quirk-from-bad-habit :) Vox -- Think of the Linux community as a niche economy isolated by its beliefs. Kind of like the Amish, except that our religion requires us to use _higher_ technology than everyone else. -- Donald B. Marti Jr.
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