[DIRMINA-773] org.apache.mina.filter.firewall.Subnet should consider 0.0.0.0/0 as a subnet that contains 'all the ipv4 addresses'

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.0-RC1
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.8
• Component/s: Filter
• Labels: whitelist
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: David Latorre
• Created: 08/Mar/10 17:40
• Updated: 07/Sep/14 07:50
• Resolved: 07/Sep/14 07:50

Description

One of our users when trying to implement a WhilteListFilter found the problem that there is no way to declare a subnet that would comprise any ip address.

As discussed in dev-mailing list, a 0.0.0.0/0 subnet should return always true for Subnet.inSubnet( any_ipv4_address)