From: Michael Widenius Date: March 29 1999 12:11pm Subject: Support for IP Range/Netmask? (fwd) List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/1134 Message-Id: <14079.28093.601628.602026@monty.pp.sci.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >>>>> "J" == J Yunke writes: J> Hi -- J> Does the host field in mysql.host support netmasks? J> For instance, 200.200.200.240/29 would be for the range of ips from J> 200.200.200.240 through 200.200.200.247? J> For those who don't know, /29 is 29 bits out of 32, which translates to J> a netmask of 255.255.255.248 (if my math is right this evening). :) J> It would be very nice if it would. I deal with a lot of subnets due to J> arin's tight control of class C's. Hi! Sorry, no. You can on the other hand probably create a separate internal domain for each subnet and mask on this name... Regards, Monty