Re: Best way to index IP data?

[Florian Weimer <fweimer(at)bfk(dot)de>]

* Steve Atkins:

> I don't think there's ambiguity about what an dotted-quad without a
> netmask means, and hasn't been for a long time. Am I missing
> something?

Classful addressing is still part of many user interfaces, for
instance Cisco's IOS.  It's not just that the CLI accepts it, it's
also the standard[*] output format (that is, "192.0.2.0" instead of
"192.0.2.0/24"; if no prefix length is given, the one based on the
class is used).

[*] I don't think you can switch it off.  Obviously, for backwards
    compatibility reasons, the default has to stay anyway.

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