Re: [HACKERS] INET and CIDR comparisons

Thus spake Don Baccus
> At 09:30 PM 6/1/99 -0400, D'Arcy" "J.M." Cain wrote:
> >I heard back from Paul Vixie and he says that it should be possible to
> >store two values in a unique index if they differ only in netbits. I
> >am sending a patch in.
>
> I've stayed out of this discussion, but Paul makes a lot of
> sense. They're NOT the same networks...

Agreed. My only point was that using the fields was probably a bad
idea anyway and, if you did, allowing both then made even less sense
but that's more of design issue.

In any case, if someone wants the protection, they can always add a unique
index on host(field).

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