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		alwayslikethis on Oct 21, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The IPv6 Transition You probably just shouldn't try to do string matching here and just use one of the conversion function to get them to binary, apply the mask, and see if they match

ianburrell on Oct 21, 2024 [–]

IPv4 has problems with the non-standard formats that use octal or combine octets. Like 192.168.1 is 192.168.0.1, 127.0.0.1 is 127.1.

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