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Anon is an imposter (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 week ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

When you translate it out it bits it’s the number of bits that are active in the net mask

0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 is a /0

1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 0000 0000 is a /24

1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1100 0000 is a /26

And since it’s used for matching, it follows how many there are.

Edit: typed that quickly, but to expand it further, take a /24 subnet, that is 255.255.255.0, if you look above each group of 8-bits can cover 0-255, so you in essence by having 24 bits turned on that’s what you want for an exact match. You’re basically saying “the first three octets need to exactly match”