nginx 0.7.12 *) Feature: the "server_name" directive supports empty name "". *) Feature: the "gzip_disable" directive supports special "msie6" mask. *) Bugfix: if the "max_fails=0" parameter was used in upstream with several servers, then a worker process exited on a SIGFPE signal. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Bugfix: a request body was dropped while redirection via an "error_page" directive. *) Bugfix: a full response was returned for request method HEAD while redirection via an "error_page" directive. *) Bugfix: the $r->header_in() method did not return value of the "Host", "User-Agent", and "Connection" request header lines; the bug had appeared in 0.7.0.

--- a/src/http/modules/ngx_http_access_module.c
+++ b/src/http/modules/ngx_http_access_module.c
@@ -166,14 +166,6 @@ ngx_http_access_rule(ngx_conf_t *cf, ngx
         return NGX_CONF_OK;
     }
 
-    rule->addr = inet_addr((char *) value[1].data);
-
-    if (rule->addr != INADDR_NONE) {
-        rule->mask = 0xffffffff;
-
-        return NGX_CONF_OK;
-    }
-
     rc = ngx_ptocidr(&value[1], &in_cidr);
 
     if (rc == NGX_ERROR) {