On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Ben Smithurst wrote:
> Philip Hazel wrote:
>
> > (1) Default unset. Preserves the current behaviour.
> >
> > (2) Minimal: ignore_hosts = <; 127.0.0.1 ; ::1
> >
> > (3) Maximal: ignore_hosts = <; 127.0.0.0/8 ; 10.0.0.0/8 ; \
> > 192.168.0.0/16 ; 172.16.0.0/12 ; \
> > ::1 ; fe80::/10
>
> Option 3 would break any private networks which use RFC1918 addresses
> (like my home network). This would annoy me slightly, even though it is
> trivial to fix. My vote is for number 2. Though if RFC1918 addresses
> appear often enough to make option 3 best for more people, I'll just
> shut up and live with adding a whole extra line to my config file. :-)
Not many responses to this, but I'm leaning towards (1) now.
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