From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> |
Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: pgsql: Document the all-balls IPv6 address. |
Date: | 2011-03-19 14:04:44 |
Message-ID: | 201103191404.p2JE4iW01338@momjian.us |
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Dave Page wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 2:22 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
> >> On 03/18/2011 09:18 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Andrew Dunstan<andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
> >>> ?wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> +<literal>0.0.0.0/0</literal> ?(<quote>all balls</>) represents all
> >>>> + ? ? ? IPv4 addresses, and<literal>::</literal> ?represents
> >>>> + ? ? ? all IPv6 addresses.
> >>>>
> >>>> Umm, isn't there a missing netmask there? The IPv6 analog of 0.0.0.0/0 is
> >>>> surely ::/0 (or I would usually write it ::0/0).
> >>>
> >>> "all balls" seems like a colloquialism best avoided in our documentation.
> >>>
> >>
> >> It's already there, although I agree it's infelicitous.
> >
> > I vote for taking it out. ?I think that could be interpreted as inappropriate.
>
> I agree.
OK, removed.
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