rsync - Aug 2005 - Cygwin bug in hosts allow

When using cygwin, I tried to specify the subnet mask for the "hosts 
allow" option in rsyncd.conf with 192.168.1.0/24, but that didn't work.
I had to use 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0.  With /24, it gives this error

@ERROR: access denied to mymodule from rsyncclient (192.168.1.20)
rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at 
main.c(1171)

Also, it would be handy if when this bug is fixed if you could also change 
the error from "access denied" to something like "host not
allowed".

Thanks,

Bill

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On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 06:35:49PM -0400, Bill Denney
wrote:
> When using cygwin, I tried to specify the subnet mask for the "hosts 
> allow" option in rsyncd.conf with 192.168.1.0/24, but that didn't
work.
Apparently inet_pton() is broken in cygwin.  Under Linux, it returns an
error, and then rsync does its own mask translation.  Under cygwin it
returns a different mask from 255.255.255.0.  I'd suggest filing a bug
report with the cygwin folks.

..wayne..

On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 10:05:38AM -0700, Wayne Davison
wrote:
> Under Linux, it returns an error
Just to be clear -- telling inet_pton() to parse "24" is what returns
an
error.  It looks like cygwin might parse that as if it were 24.255.255.0.

..wayne..