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Date:      Fri, 8 Jun 2012 09:20:56 +0200
From:      Jonathan McKeown <j.mckeown@ru.ac.za>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Cc:        "Alexander V. Chernikov" <melifaro@freebsd.org>, net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ifconfig accepting hostname as ipv4 address
Message-ID:  <201206080920.56986.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za>
In-Reply-To: <4FD0C1F4.2060108@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <4FD0C1F4.2060108@FreeBSD.org>

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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



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