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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Kraemer)
Wed Mar 6 18:23:54 1996
From: Martin Kraemer <Martin.Kraemer@mch.sni.de>
To: Dan.Merillat@ao.net (Dan Merillat)
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 09:32:36 +0100 (MET)
Cc: ken@syd.dit.csiro.au, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960304191632.21788A-100000@eola.ao.net> from "Dan Merillat" at Mar 4, 96 07:56:07 pm
Dan Merillat wrote,...
>
> Of course, since it's hex, we can pick cool ip addresses:
>
> ACAD:ACE:......
> ^^^^ 0 padded....
>
> or DAD:ADD:AFEC::BAD:DAD:CAD:DEAD
>
> Looks valid here. :-)
I still don't know why they chose colons. Commands that rely on the colon
to separate host-name (or -address) from path-on-host will break.
Well, most programs will break, anyway.
Martin
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