Part of the problem with this valve is that regex matching is such a (IMHO) bizarre choice for IP address matching. IP addresses have a structure which is very unlike text, and the customary and expected matches take a bit of finagling to do in regexes.
I should try writing netmask and CIDR address matchers. Likewise the hostname valve. Domain names also are structured, and people who have just discovered the valve may be expecting quite a different type of matching than what they get. I had to read the documentation very slowly and carefully before I could get the customary match styles out of my head. Again, I should try writing a DNS-style globber. It might be fun. (But don't hold your breath waiting for it.) -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Asking whether markets are efficient is like asking whether people are smart.
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