On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Yes, some have asked about this. My understanding was that CIDR > (host/len) was mostly for networks, while hostname/mask was for hosts. > Now, you can specify hosts using /32, but is is unusual? Maybe not.
Typically, if you have something like an access list where you're specifying hosts or networks, you default the netmask to /32 if it's not supplied. However, if we're going to maintain backward compatability with the old format (i.e., using a separately specified netmask in the next column if no slash is present in the address column) we can't do that. Personally, I'm all for breaking backwards compatability (as I usually am :-)) but could quite easily live with specifying all most hosts as "n.n.n.n/32" forever into the future, too. cjs -- Curt Sampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +81 90 7737 2974 http://www.netbsd.org Don't you know, in this new Dark Age, we're all light. --XTC ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
