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

[Dirk Salva <dsalva@xxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 08:26:08PM -0400, Darren Nickerson wrote:
> "Dirk Salva" <dsalva@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >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.

Ok. And ^foo@192\.168\.3 means (as I want) the whole IP-range from
192.168.3.0 to 192.168.3.255, is this correct?

ciao, Dirk
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