Re: Cleaning up the INET/CIDR mess

On 2006-01-25, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Andrew - Supernews wrote:
>> 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?
>
> This is coming from inet_net_pton.c, which we got from:

That the behaviour comes from ISC code does not make it correct.

> We are doing our best here to follow industry standards on how things
> should behave.

This is not an "industry standard".

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