In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Peter Jeremy writes:
: Since it's sort-of related: netstat(1) will drop trailing 0's from
: the routes it prints out, ie 10.2.3.0/24 will print as 10.2.3/24
: (though route(8) won't accept 10.2.3/24 as an input).
:
: IMHO, having a 172.16 mean a network address of 172.16.0.0 or a
: host address of 172.0.0.16 is somewhat confusing...
So? Having "rover" mean rover.village.org or rover.freebsd.org is
also confusing, no? It all depends on what the context is as to what
something means. This is no different than that. It is no different
than having rover mean different things in different contexts.
Warner
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