On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 06:38:01PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Greg Stark <gsstark@xxxxxxx> writes: > > The normal way to read "1.10" would be as synonymous with "1.0.0.10". > > That might be the case for IPv6, but it's never been a standard > convention for IPv4; and even for IPv6 it doesn't make any sense > for a network (as opposed to host) number. I don't know if it's ever been blessed by a formal standard, but that way of interpreting an IPv4 address is widely implemented in inet_aton() and friends. The 4.2BSD inet(3) manual page documents that interpretation, and on most (all?) systems I've ever used, "ping 127.1" is a shortcut for pinging the loopback address. -- Michael Fuhr http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
