Don Hackett: [BIND-BUGS #1090] [bind bug] leading zero's give bad address
Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Sat Sep 2 01:18:52 UTC 2000
> i need help with this. it seems like octal interpretation is counterintuitiv
> e
> but i thought it was the standard long before i came on the scene. if decima
> l
> is how BSD inet_addr() classically behaved, and i broke it, then i'll change
> it to decimal.
>
From memory BSD 4.2 interperted leading zeros as octal. You could
even enter the addresses as hexadecimal. i.e. it was bad to name
a host deadbeef. This was mentioned in the 4.2 documention.
Mark
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