From 2fccc881a9184879deeb9580bc25e7c420c580f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:54:45 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Document that bits to the right of the CIDR mask "should" be zero, not "must". --- doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml index 77c541b6cb0..575eb3be448 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml @@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ hostnossl <replaceable>database</replaceable> <replaceable>user</replaceable> An IP address is specified in standard dotted decimal notation with a <acronym>CIDR</> mask length. The mask length indicates the number of high-order bits of the client - IP address that must match. Bits to the right of this must + IP address that must match. Bits to the right of this should be zero in the given IP address. There must not be any white space between the IP address, the <literal>/</literal>, and the CIDR mask length. -- GitLab