Joel Bender wrote: > Nick Coghlan wrote: > >> Maybe this is something that differs by country, but I have *never* >> heard the first address in an IP network (i.e. every bit not covered by >> the netmask set to zero) referred to as anything other than the "network >> address". > > Ah! A change to interject a mostly pointless comment... > > Prior to IEN-212 [1] it wasn't standardized, the 'zero' was used and > supported by the Berkeley socket library. This was a number of years > ago, however (!), and I dare say the sample code is lost to antiquity.
Ah, that would be me showing my (lack of) age then :) I was still six years or so away from getting my first computer and more than 15 years away from any formal networking training when that note was published... Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
