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From Robert Haas
Subject Re: pgsql: Document the all-balls IPv6 address.
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In response to Re: pgsql: Document the all-balls IPv6 address.  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
> + <literal>0.0.0.0/0</literal> (<quote>all balls</>) represents all
> +       IPv4 addresses, and <literal>::</literal> represents
> +       all IPv6 addresses.
>
> Umm, isn't there a missing netmask there? The IPv6 analog of 0.0.0.0/0 is
> surely ::/0 (or I would usually write it ::0/0).

"all balls" seems like a colloquialism best avoided in our documentation.

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