Re: [hylafax-users] Correct writing in hosts.hfaxd

["Darren Nickerson" <darren.nickerson@xxxxxxxx>]

"Dirk Salva" <dsalva@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've an understanding-problem with registering a user with IPs in the
> hosts.hfax in correct way:
>
> Only the user foo may send faxes, and only from the internal network
> and localhost. So, is the following string semantically correct?
>
> ^foo@xxxxxxxxx
> and for the whole 192.168.3.xxx range:
> ^foo@xxxxxxxxx
>
> _or_
>
> ^foo@127\.0\.0\.1
> ^foo@192\.168\.3
> ?!?
>
> What is correct?

If you escape the period with a backslash as in "\." then it matches only a 
period. If you don't escape it, it's a regular expression operator that 
basically means "any character". Both will work for you in this case, but 
the escaped form is formally more of an exact match, and could be considered 
a better way to write it.

-Darren 


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