Re: 16 year old bug

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

tls%panix.com@localhost (Thor Lancelot Simon) writes:

>I could care less whether support for noncontiguous subnet masks were
>to disappear, but I would strongly prefer that nothing _else_ in the
>system that relies on the IP stack supporting them be needlessly
>broken in the process just so we can say we're modern and stylish.
>That's just irresponsible.

If you (not you Thor :-)) wanted to be modern and stylish you would just
use IPv6 and no noncontigous netmask would bother you.

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