Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>> Seems unlikely. I suppose you could argue that we shouldn't be using
>> getaddrinfo on the netmask field at all; there's certainly not any value
>> in doing a DNS lookup on it, for instance. Maybe we should go back to
>> using plain ol' inet_aton for it? (Nah, won't handle IPv6...)
> We could do it if we tested the addr.ai_family first, and only did it in
> the IPv4 case. I agree calling getaddrinfo is overkill for masks.
Huh? The reason we're using getaddrinfo in the first place is we don't
*know* whether we've got an IPv4 or IPv6 string ...
regards, tom lane