On Fri, Dec 12, 2025 at 03:09:34PM +0100, Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hi Tomas, > > Am 12.12.2025 um 14:49 schrieb [email protected]: > ... > > Actually, the hosts(5) man page has this to say, under "Historical notes":
[...] > Good point, but RFC 952 describes a different network than what we have > today... natwork classes, names registered with NIC. Also, the format is > actually different. > > Which doesn't matter, because it predates even the terminology specification > in RFC 2119, so we can understand any term to mean what we like :-) > > That said -- this discussion is most likely not leading anywhere, and most > particularly not where Loic wants it, I think. Yes to all of the above :) Cheers -- t
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