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

[Brad Knowles]

At 12:37 PM -0700 2000/9/5, Paul A Vixie wrote:

>  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?

	Is there any way to make this an option that can be set in either 
the resolver or in the nameserver?  That way people needing/wanting 
one type of behaviour or the other can get it, while not necessarily 
breaking things for everyone else?


	If it helps reduce the number of complaints received from 
Microsoft-on-the-brain people who automatically assume that the 
Universe was created when Bill Gates was born, then I'm all for it.

	Of course, this would also mean yet another piece of cruft that 
creeps into the code, and which the BINDv9 folks are going to have to 
find some way to deal with in the future.

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