Messages in this thread |  | | Date | 08 Sep 2001 14:42:00 +0200 | From | (Kai Henningsen) | Subject | Re: ioctl SIOCGIFNETMASK: ip alias bug 2.4.9 and 2.2.19 |
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matthias.andree@gmx.de (Matthias Andree) wrote on 06.09.01 in <20010906151113.A29583@maggie.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de>:
> Well, Postfix used to look at the addresses and deduce the network class > for that,
The WHAT?!
Classes have been dead since around 1993!
> but there have been many complaints by people that this would > get subnets wrong. A couple of months ago, Postfix has started to look > up the netmasks as well.
Modern software trying to work with classes should not allowed on the Internet; people who don't know this should not allowed to write network software.
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