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Cc: "Alexander V. Chernikov" <melifaro@freebsd.org>, net@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ifconfig accepting hostname as ipv4 address
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On Thursday 07 June 2012 17:00:04 Alexander V. Chernikov wrote:
> Hello list!
>
> Since the early days ifconfig(8) has the following functionality:

[hostname in place of literal address]

> Moreover, ifconfig em0 some_valid_fqdn/MASK silently ignores it, so you
> can't set valid CIDR address using this notation.

I'm not sure that's true. Have you tried it? Because it seems to work here.

Jonathan