BF>> And what will happen if you try to connect to IP number 0.0.0.0?

 ml> you don't... if your mailer even tries, then you have it
 ml> misconfigured...

   So why bother with the entry?

 ml> the 000- psuedo "area code" would prevent that in POTS
 ml> mailers... IP capable mailers will see the string and know not to call
 ml> it... valid IPs listed this way will have the 000- stripped and the IP
 ml> used in the same fashion as a POTS number... frontdoor has been doing
 ml> this for two decades now...

   You know that I know how this works, no? From my FDNODE.CTL I still have

DIAL / 00-      ; before int'l
  46-  0        ; before area code
  46-31-        ; local call
  000- internet ; IP-number
END

   So my 46-31-960447 resolves to

   a) 960447 for those in the -31 area code (local call)
   b) 031-960447 for those within Sweden (46 country code)
   and c) 001-919-774-5930 for a POTS call to you.  8-)

   Anyone calling my phone systems number from a Swedish node without the
translation will end up dialling a local call to 463196. I don't think it would
have gone unnoticed if that happened in the middle of the ZMH night to the poor
guy with that phone number...

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