Re: Cleaning up the INET/CIDR mess

On 2006-01-25, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Agreed. 10.1 as 10.0.0.1 is an old behavior which has been removed from
> most modern versions of networking tools.

Indeed so. However the current behaviour has neither the merit of being
traditional nor the merit of being logical:

=> select '10.1'::cidr;
cidr
-------------
10.1.0.0/16
(1 row)

=> select '128.1'::cidr;
cidr
--------------
128.1.0.0/16
(1 row)

=> select '192.1'::cidr;
cidr
--------------
192.1.0.0/24
(1 row)

Having the behaviour be dependent on which part of the IP space is used
is a total nonsense on the modern, CIDR, internet! The C in CIDR even
stands for "Classless", so how can you ever justify introducing _new_,
non-traditional, dependencies on the traditional classes?

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