| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: pgsql: Document the all-balls IPv6 address. |
| Date: | 2011-03-19 01:18:13 |
| Message-ID: | AANLkTi==Eq5N3F0AQXmrEqhcWxSZM0sE5ChEiVKA4_JD@mail.gmail.com |
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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.
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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
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