Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 09:23:15 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: "Alexander V. Chernikov" <melifaro@freebsd.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ifconfig accepting hostname as ipv4 address Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206090922390.84632@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <4FD0C1F4.2060108@FreeBSD.org> References: <4FD0C1F4.2060108@FreeBSD.org>
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> input. > Moreover, ifconfig em0 some_valid_fqdn/MASK silently ignores it, so you can't > set valid CIDR address using this notation. > > Classful era has ended more than 10 years ago, do we still want to keep this > behavior? > were not aware of that option, and it is rather stupid option - you should work on addresses not names when configuring network
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