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From: Patrick Schaaf <bof@bof.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iptables: handle cidr notation more sanely
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 07:59:02 +0200
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> > 	iptables -A foo -s 10.10/16
> > 
> > will interpret 10.10/16 as 10.0.0.10/16, and after applying the mask end
> > up with 10.0.0.0/16, which likely isn't what the user intended.  Yet
> > some people do expect 10.10 (without the cidr notation) to end up as
> > 10.0.0.10.
...
> 
> Applied, thanks Phil. Hope all those lazy typers are happy now :)

Better hope the past lazy typers' boot time iptables scripts will not break
in any critical way by such a radical interpretation change.

Of course, it's all their own fault when that happens, lazy bastards.

Methinks that it would be better to make non-3-dots IP addresses
a syntax error, period.

best regards
  Patrick