Re: 16 year old bug [with non-contiguous netmasks]

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 03:43:06PM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Christoph Egger wrote:
> > [OpenBSD] commit message:
> > --------------------------------------------
> > Fix a 16 year old bug in the sorting routine for non-contiguous netmasks.
> 
> I suggest removing support for non-contiguous netmasks.  They are
> unusable with CIDR (introduced in 1993 in RFCs 1517, 1518, and 1519).
> Even RFC 950 (August 1985) recommended that subnet bits should be
> contiguous.

Agreed. I think it was pretty much the consensus too when this was
discussed the last time.

Joerg