Darren Pilgrim:
> The man pages given in the subject both state an IPv6 address "is a
> sequence of three to eight hexadecimal octet pairs separated by ':'."
>
> I find that a tad unclear. How is :: handled? Can I put 2001:db8:1::1
> or do I need to enter it as 2001:db8:1:0:0:0:0:1? Does the format
> support trimming leading zeroes from each octet pair?
This text is talking about ADDRESS notation.
Postfix supports the "short-hand" notation that replaces a sequence
of 0 bytes in an IP address by ::.
> IPv6 prefixes that should match 2001:db8::/32 and fe80::/16,
> respectively, per the search algorithm, but they have less than two
> octet pairs.
You are now talking about a PREFIX.
A PREFIX is not an ADDRESS.
The ADDRESS is 3-8 fields separated by :.
The PREFIX is created by dropping ":octetpair" from the IPv6 address.
Wietse
