> Well, I think all the guy meant by "more intelligent" was for route to
> actually notice when a deletion request without a netmask was completely
> unambiguous and then act on it.
>
> What could that possibly break ?
Its more baggage from route to handle, and would make route(8) slow on
routers and similar machines where they have lots of routes (say, 45k+). Its
also likely to take down the wrong route when you have lots of little
routes.
On the whole, I don't think its a good idea. I think it encourages people to
write lazy scripts and sooner or later we'll get bitten by it.
-Chris
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