ifconfig accepting hostname as ipv4 address

Wojciech Puchar wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl
Sat Jun 9 07:23:19 UTC 2012


> input.
> Moreover, ifconfig em0 some_valid_fqdn/MASK silently ignores it, so you can't 
> set valid CIDR address using this notation.
>
> Classful era has ended more than 10 years ago, do we still want to keep this 
> behavior?
>
were not aware of that option, and it is rather stupid option - you should
work on addresses not names when configuring network


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