Don Hackett: [BIND-BUGS #1090] [bind bug] leading zero's give bad address

Paul A Vixie vixie at mibh.net
Tue Sep 5 19:37:58 UTC 2000


tom, i'm halfway in your camp already.  i've always hated this octal stuff
for the individual octets of a dotted quad.  when i last rewrote inet_aton()
i could have ripped it out.  several old RFC's print dotted quads with leading
zeros in the octets and interpret the results as DECIMAL.

but even though i am sensitive to how broken and counterintuitive this is, i
am likewise sensitive to the installed base and the number of people who might
be depending on this function to work this way.  what do you think would happen
if we made a late change of this kind?



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