One sollution might be to add an option like "-n" when one wants numerical values on ports and ip-adresses.
I no '-n' option, it could look up that feild in hosts, networks, protocols and services and use the result from there. Then I guess the need for comments might be less urgent.
So instead of
Anywhere ALLOW 77.49.196.34
Anywhere ALLOW 123.240.238.117
22 ALLOW 192.168.0.120
One sollution might be to add an option like "-n" when one wants numerical values on ports and ip-adresses.
I no '-n' option, it could look up that feild in hosts, networks, protocols and services and use the result from there. Then I guess the need for comments might be less urgent.
So instead of
Anywhere ALLOW 77.49.196.34
Anywhere ALLOW 123.240.238.117
22 ALLOW 192.168.0.120
we get
Anywhere ALLOW thomas.example.org example. com
Anywhere ALLOW my2ndbox.
ssh ALLOW johnsws.local
Which is more important when we get more IPv6 addresses.