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net: don't accept non-left-contiguous netmasks
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Authored by Fabien on Feb 4 2021, 20:33.

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rABC8bd41b771c52: net: don't accept non-left-contiguous netmasks
Summary
A netmask that contains 1-bits after 0-bits (the 1-bits are not
contiguous on the left side) is invalid [1] [2].

The code before this PR used to parse and accept such
non-left-contiguous netmasks. However, a coming change that will alter
`CNetAddr::ip` to have flexible size would make juggling with such
netmasks more difficult, thus drop support for those.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classless_Inter-Domain_Routing#Subnet_masks
[2] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4632#section-5.1

Partial backport (1/2) of core PR19628:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/19628/commits/1ea57ad67406b3aaaef5254bc2fa7e4134f3a6df

Depends on D9172.

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ninja all check-all

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