Re: Brokenness in parsing of pg_hba.conf

Greg Stark wrote:
> a.b.c
>
> When a three-part address is specified, the last part shall be interpreted
> as a 16-bit quantity and placed in the rightmost two bytes of the network
> address. This makes the three-part address format convenient for specifying
> Class B network addresses as "128.net.host" .

I can understand the a.b case, but the a.b.c case is just weird. What
logic is there that it is a.0.b.c? Nothing I can think of except
convention. I agree with Vixie that this syntax is strange and
shouldn't be encouraged.

> > Tom has challenged you to prove that this is caused by Pg code and not
> > code in your native libraries. Until then, the matter should rest.
>
> Indeed, while I'm not sure what platform the original submitter's using in the
> case of glibc it's already a reported bug (by me no less):
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=183814

BSD/OS 4.3.1 doesn't like 127.1:

$ ping 127.1
ping: 127.1: hostname nor servname provided, or not known
$ ping 127.0.0.1
PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.11 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.056 ms

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