On 2006-01-25, Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> wrote: > Andrew - Supernews wrote: >> Having the behaviour be dependent on which part of the IP space is used >> is a total nonsense on the modern, CIDR, internet! The C in CIDR even >> stands for "Classless", so how can you ever justify introducing _new_, >> non-traditional, dependencies on the traditional classes? > > This is coming from inet_net_pton.c, which we got from:
That the behaviour comes from ISC code does not make it correct. > We are doing our best here to follow industry standards on how things > should behave. This is not an "industry standard". -- Andrew, Supernews http://www.supernews.com - individual and corporate NNTP services ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend