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From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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<<On Thu, 7 Sep 1995 01:28:02 +1000 (EST), michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au> said:

>     if ((mask = inet_addr(*argv)) == -1 || (netmask & ~mask) != 0) {

It should use inet_aton() here to avoid this problem.

-GAWollman

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