Jan Ceuleers wrote:
On 10/08/2019 23:22, Wietse Venema wrote:
NOTE 1: The access map lookup key must be in canonical form: DO
NOT SPECIFY UNNECESSARY NULL CHARACTERS, and do not enclose net-
work address information with "[]" characters.
Emphasis added for clarity.
To me a NULL character is the ASCII character which has all of its bits
set to zero. Could I therefore suggest talking about 0 characters
instead in this man page?
Think "semantically null". There are other things that could be
included in a "convenient for [x]" format for an IP address which do not
change its meaning.
-kgd