Jan Ceuleers wrote:
On 10/08/2019 23:22, Wietse Venema wrote:
               NOTE 1: The access map lookup key must be in canonical form:  DO
               NOT SPECIFY UNNECESSARY NULL CHARACTERS, and do not enclose net-
               work address information with "[]" characters.

Emphasis added for clarity.

To me a NULL character is the ASCII character which has all of its bits
set to zero. Could I therefore suggest talking about 0 characters
instead in this man page?

Think "semantically null". There are other things that could be included in a "convenient for [x]" format for an IP address which do not change its meaning.

-kgd

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