On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 12:53:19PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Greg Stark wrote: > > a.b.c > > > > When a three-part address is specified, the last part shall be interpreted > > as a 16-bit quantity and placed in the rightmost two bytes of the network > > address. This makes the three-part address format convenient for specifying > > Class B network addresses as "128.net.host" . > > I can understand the a.b case, but the a.b.c case is just weird. What > logic is there that it is a.0.b.c? Nothing I can think of except > convention. I agree with Vixie that this syntax is strange and > shouldn't be encouraged.
It's a.b.0.c. Note that the "c" can be bigger than 255, so 128.1.512 turns into 128.1.2.0. This can make perfect sense when you still used classes. Kurt ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])