Comment 1 for bug 141665

Andreas asked:

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> Can you give an example ?
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From the Zope book at http://www.zope.org/Members/michel/ZB/Security.dtml:

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> You can also use IP numbers with asterisks to indicate wild card
> instead of domain names to specify domains. For example,
> "209.67.167.*" will match all IP addresses that start with
> "209.67.167".
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Im sure the old adminstrators guide documented that it worked with domain names too.

Also, it is also suprisingly useful to be able to specify a match-everything pattern that is simply "*". In the old collector, item 2002 was a patch to add an optimisation for this case, and documentation about *why* it is useful. Brian merged this patch in User.py revision 1.133.2.7.