Re: Need help in enabling remote connection

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Kevin Grittner
<Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> wrote:
> Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>>> -- Dear Ian Lea, i guess 10.0.0.1/24  is the same as 10.0.0.0/24
>>> as the mask '24' means that the first 3 octets (24 bits from the
>>> left hand side) must match ie both mean simply 10.0.0.*
>>
>> Actually 10.0.0.0/24 means that the right hand 24 bits don't matter,
>> so anything starting with 10. will match.
>
> I think you're mistaken on that.  The comment in pg_hbs.conf matches
> everything else I can find on the topic:
>
> # CIDR-ADDRESS specifies the set of hosts the record matches.
> # It is made up of an IP address and a CIDR mask that is an integer
> # (between 0 and 32 (IPv4) or 128 (IPv6) inclusive) that specifies
> # the number of significant bits in the mask.

Yeap, got it backwards. Thanks.