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From: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
Subject: Re: bin/39896: netmask 0xffffff00 no longer works in /etc/exports 
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The following reply was made to PR bin/39896; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
To: "Crist J. Clark" <crist.clark@attbi.com>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG,
	"Jin Guojun[DSD]" <j_guojun@lbl.gov>
Subject: Re: bin/39896: netmask 0xffffff00 no longer works in /etc/exports 
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 18:59:01 +0100

 In message <200206271730.g5RHU3PL084959@freefall.freebsd.org>, "Crist J. Clark"
  writes:
 > Sorry. Wrong cut-n-paste. I did use 0xffffff00 and it seemed to work
 > fine. When did you notice a change? src/sbin/mountd/mountd.c hasn't
 > changed since 4.4-RELEASE. I can't see anything that deals with
 > reading the netmask that has changed since 1998. The mask is actually
 > read with the inet_network(3) function, and I see no significant
 > changes in that for several years either.
 
 I'm not sure how this could have ever worked correctly, since
 inet_network(3) does not support hex addresses of this form. There
 are also no examples of it on the mountd man page. It is probably
 a bug that inet_network() is not a bit more picky about what it
 does accept though.
 
 Ian

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