On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Philip Hazel wrote:
| In the context of Exim, this is worrying. Exim has always recognized
| only dotted quad, 4-component, IPv4 addresses. Of course it could be
| changed, but it now worries me that:
|
| (a) 192.168.1/24 presumably means 192.168.1.0/24 (otherwise what's
| the point of the 1?)
That seems to depend - e.g:
nmap 192.168.1/24 actually scans 192.168.0.0/24
^
I don't know what's the point of the 1 - it seems to be ignored. At
least, on Linux. Trying the same on Solaris the 1 *is* obeyed - ie. it
scans 192.168.1.0/24 !
Sorry not enough time to figure out why this is.
| The inconsistency will confuse people (and as someone posted, already
| has).
I'm certainly confused ;-)
