Bug#327088: [Logcheck-devel] Bug#327088: Dovecot rules doesn't work with ipv6

[Jamie L. Penman-Smithson]

On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 22:15 +0200, Elmar Hoffmann wrote:
> > ^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ (imap|pop3)-login: Login:
> > [.[:alnum:]@-]+ \[(::ffff:)?[:0-9.]+\]$
> 
> While the given example log entry unfortunately does not show it, an
> IPv6 address does use hex digits, ie. the address of the box I'm
> writing this on is 2001:1638:1810::201:2ff:fe0d:6cec, which would not
> be matched by the pattern (::ffff:)?[:0-9.]+ used above (and the other
> rules I didn't quote).
> Thus a correct pattern to match an IPv4 or IPv6 address would be:
> [0-9a-f.:]+

Thanks for catching that, my only excuse is that I was falling asleep at
the keyboard at the time..

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