Karthikeyan Singaravelan <tir.kar...@gmail.com> added the comment:
> I couldn't find any use of _is_valid_netmask() in the code, why should this > netmask be invalid? There is an open issue to remove this method which is unused and undocumented issue27860. I have less knowledge on the subnet masking area but on searching the web there seems to be an RFC that asks for contiguous ones without intermixing zeroes that I hope OP is referring to. * https://superuser.com/questions/601252/is-225-225-225-128-a-valid-subnet-mask * https://superuser.com/questions/1151908/non-contiguous-subnet-mask/1151942#1151942 ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue35734> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
