Nick Coghlan wrote: > Maybe this is something that differs by country, but I have *never* > heard the first address in an IP network (i.e. every bit not covered by > the netmask set to zero) referred to as anything other than the "network > address". Ah! A change to interject a mostly pointless comment... Prior to IEN-212 [1] it wasn't standardized, the 'zero' was used and supported by the Berkeley socket library. This was a number of years ago, however (!), and I dare say the sample code is lost to antiquity. > And if someone does need to deal with that, then they create an > appropriate subclass or use a less lightweight IP addressing library. Indeed. Joel [1] <http://www.networksorcery.com/enp/ien/ien212.txt>
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