Re: inet_pton and oddly-formatted addresses

On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote:

Hi,

On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 14:28:07 -0500
Ed Maste <emaste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

emaste> I think an address like 1.002.3.4 is bizarre, but is our inet_pton incorrect
emaste> in rejecting it?

The change was taken from BIND9. The following is from BIND9's
CHANGES:

935. [bug] inet_pton failed to reject leading zeros.


well, maybe they were wrong? How does one get in contact with their
bugs database these days? Is comp.protocols.dns.bind still a good
place to discuss these things?

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Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT
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