Re: Possibly dangerous interpretation of address/prefix pair in -s option

From: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@netfilter.org>
To: Reindl Harald <h.reindl@thelounge.net>
Cc: Stefan Riha <stefan@sriha.net>, Alex Buie <alex.buie@datto.com>,
	"netfilter@vger.kernel.org" <netfilter@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Possibly dangerous interpretation of address/prefix pair in -s option
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2022 15:06:01 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <efe54ba7-fca1-e95-2ded-d83c5e144987@netfilter.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4df0f9c3-5617-e798-56d9-d24725250906@thelounge.net>

On Sat, 4 Jun 2022, Reindl Harald wrote:

> Am 04.06.22 um 08:45 schrieb Stefan Riha:
> > My point is, I think this re-interpretation dangerous
> and my point is when you come up with "I'm a beginner" you should fro 
> the sake of go dlisten what people explain and stop using the word 
> "interpretation"
> 
> binary math != interpretation
> damned stop wasting peoples time
> your way of communication makes me sick and tired
> 
> it won't be changed - live with it or just hire somebody who can but het 
> rid of the idea that you are coming out of the blue after 30 years 
> changing the world

There's no need to be hostile, everyone was a newcomer once. It seems 
people can come to wrong conclusions due to the syntax which is used at 
different systems with different internal meanings. The feature cannot of 
course be changed, but maybe it'd worth to update the documentation.

Best regards,
Jozsef
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