Package: tcpd Severity: minor Hello,
I tried recently to understand why the following line in hosts.allow sshd: x.y.237.0/23 could not be matched by x.y.236.[0..254] nor x.y.237.[0..254]. I finally found that the right invocation was sshd: x.y.236.0/23 that is, all the untested bit, in this case the 24th included, have to be set to zero. My understanding of the mask is that, in this case, it is used to test the m first bits of the match between target and client adress, and the test should be insensitive to the other bits. Maybe this could be documented somehow ? Best regards Pascal Dupuis -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.21 Locale: LANG=fr_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
