[c-nsp] "Not a valid host address" error

[h bagade]

Thanks all.
Thanks Gert for your complete answer. It cleared the vague parts but one
still remains! what about ip address like 0.2.3.1 255.255.255.0! what's the
rule for this one?

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Gert Doering <gert at greenie.muc.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 04:08:03PM +0330, h bagade wrote:
> > I want to know in what condition this error occurres when defining ip
> > addresses on interfaces? I test many IP addresses and diverse error
> > messages happens which I don't know the reasons. Is there any reference
> > which I could find the invalid pattern of ip addresses?
>
> "networking 101"?
>
> - don't use IP addresses out of Class D or E space
> - don't use netmasks that are not left-contiguous (no 0-bits mixed into
>   1-bits)
> - don't use /32 masks on anything that's not a loopback
> - don't use IP addresses that would be the network or broadcast address
>   in a given subnet
>
> In essence, except for the non-contiguous netmask thing "don't do things
> that are not permitted by the networking-101 text book".  And don't use
> IPv4 either.
>
> gert
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