Joel Bender wrote: > 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. Ah, that would be me showing my (lack of) age then :) I was still six years or so away from getting my first computer and more than 15 years away from any formal networking training when that note was published... Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia ---------------------------------------------------------------
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