On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Philip Hazel wrote:

| In the context of Exim, this is worrying. Exim has always recognized 
| only dotted quad, 4-component, IPv4 addresses. Of course it could be 
| changed, but it now worries me that:
| 
| (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
                                           ^

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 !

Sorry not enough time to figure out why this is.


| The inconsistency will confuse people (and as someone posted, already 
| has).

I'm certainly confused ;-)


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