From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 8 Sep 2001 10:23:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 8 Sep 2001 10:22:55 -0400 Received: from mailout04.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.18]:26126 "EHLO mailout04.sul.t-online.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 8 Sep 2001 10:22:40 -0400 Date: 08 Sep 2001 14:42:00 +0200 From: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen) To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <88VMRprXw-B@khms.westfalen.de> In-Reply-To: <20010906151113.A29583@maggie.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de> Subject: Re: ioctl SIOCGIFNETMASK: ip alias bug 2.4.9 and 2.2.19 X-Mailer: CrossPoint v3.12d.kh7 R/C435 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Organisation? Me?! Are you kidding? In-Reply-To: <20010905152738.C5912BC06D@spike.porcupine.org.suse.lists.linux.kernel> <20010905182033.D3926@emma1.emma.line.org.suse.lists.linux.kernel> <20010906151113.A29583@ma X-No-Junk-Mail: I do not want to get *any* junk mail. Comment: Unsolicited commercial mail will incur an US$100 handling fee per received mail. X-Fix-Your-Modem: +++ATS2=255&WO1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org matthias.andree@gmx.de (Matthias Andree) wrote on 06.09.01 in <20010906151113.A29583@maggie.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de>: > Well, Postfix used to look at the addresses and deduce the network class > for that, The WHAT?! Classes have been dead since around 1993! > but there have been many complaints by people that this would > get subnets wrong. A couple of months ago, Postfix has started to look > up the netmasks as well. Modern software trying to work with classes should not allowed on the Internet; people who don't know this should not allowed to write network software. MfG Kai