On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Hugh Sasse wrote:
> However, there were a few things that I think could be made clearer.
Thanks for taking the time to make the comments. I'll try to bear them
in mind for the next edition.
> The documentation says you can use
> regular expressions to match hostnames, but I could not find anything
> explicit about using them for IP address specs, so I didn't do that.
I suggested providing this facility when we were discussion the revision
of the domain, host, and address list syntax for 3.00. It got pooh-poohed
on the list ("Whoever would want to do that?") so I did not implement it.
I suggested the following as one of the possible forms of an item in a
host list:
. If the item starts with net-^ (e.g. net-^(10|11)\.) it is a regular
expression to be matched against the textual form of the IP address.
It would not be difficult to do if there was a genuine demand for it.
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