[Mimedefang] Including archetypal filters to include in release?

Philip Prindeville philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com
Tue Jan 10 14:25:20 EST 2006


Matthew.van.Eerde at hbinc.com wrote:

>Philip Prindeville wrote:
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>>I thought about all of this, by the way...  And then remembered that
>>some networks are made of two or more adjacent CIDR blocks, but of
>>unequal size, or not aligned (mergeable).  Look at:
>>
>>   '212.145.160.0/21'  => 'REJECT',
>>   '212.145.192.0/20'  => 'REJECT',
>>
>>for example.  That is actually the range 212.145.160.0 -
>>212.145.223.0. 
>>
>>So Patricia wouldn't work in this case.
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>I don't see why this is a problem... can't Patricia handle unmergeable neighbors as seperate entries?
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Well, yes.   But I was hoping to add support for address ranges as well...
I.e. "212.145.160.0-212.145.223.255" (since that's how some of them are 
stored
in the various ARIN, RIPE, and APNIC whois databases).

-Philip




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