On Jan 11, 2008, at 2:24 PM, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 05:02:36PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote:
networks), but there's a conspicuous lack of a type for (hosts). I
suppose if you really are sure that you want to store hosts and not
networks
Well, part of the trouble is that in the CIDR world, an IP without a
netmask
can be dangerously ambiguous. I can see why the design is as it is
for that
reason. (But I understand the problem.)
I don't think there's ambiguity about what an dotted-quad without a
netmask
means, and hasn't been for a long time. Am I missing something?
There is ambiguity when you feed non dotted-quads into the
existing cidr I/O functions[1], but that's both a dead horse,
and not something likely to actually affect users negatively.
Cheers,
Steve
[1] Because postgresql copied obsolete pre-CIDR code from libbind.
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