Re: INET/CIDR types

Thus spake Larry Rosenman
> What RFC says you can't print all 4 octets of a CIDR Netnumber?

Can't recall.  It was Paul Vixie who made the claim and since he was
probably the one who wrote it I tend to believe him.

In fact it may be that it suggested rather than required but someone
would have to dig out the RFC before we considered changing it I think.

> Why does network(cidr) return the whole cidr output just like
> select cidr?

Yah, it's redundant.  "network(cidr)" is just a long way to say "cidr."
The only reason it is there is because of the way the code was written
for the two types.  Not having it would have required a special test to
look for it and technically it is correct so we didn't bother.

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