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Compatibility with other addressing formats (hostname? ipv6? $OTHER_THING?) or human readability.

• audidude 17y ago
  Read my post again. I said store. There is no reason to store in a compiled format for humans.
  • tptacek 17y ago
    You mean, besides the fact that storing binary IP addresses breaks "grep", and basically all of the rest of Unix too.
    • audidude 17y ago
      Thats fair. I was a bit narrow sighted in my vision of high-performance scenarios.