On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 10:14:42PM -0400, Greg Stark wrote: > Michael Fuhr <mike@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > I don't know if it's ever been blessed by a formal standard > > It's blessed by POSIX: > > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/inet_addr.html Yep, that's lifted almost verbatim out of the 4.2BSD inet(3) manual page. > I'm really skeptical Vixie would have written things this way. Perhaps > somebody at some point later misunderstood the convention and "fixed" the > behaviour? I just ran some tests with the inet_net_pton() function found in the BIND 4.9.11 source code and it behaves the same way as the code in PostgreSQL, viz., 10.1 becomes 10.1.0.0. The code I used had the following rcsid: $Id: inet_net_pton.c,v 8.3 1996/11/11 06:36:52 vixie Exp $ Maybe Vixie didn't like the convention or think it was worth implementing for his needs. Aside from the rare use of "ping 127.1", I do find it more useful to interpret 10.1 as 10.1.0.0 since I'm more likely to use 10.1 as an abbreviation for the "ten dot one network" than as shorthand for 10.0.0.1. I expect I'm not alone in that. -- Michael Fuhr http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq
