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

[Brad Knowles]

At 2:20 PM -0700 2000/9/1, Paul A Vixie wrote:

>  i need help with this.  it seems like octal interpretation is 
>counterintuitive
>  but i thought it was the standard long before i came on the scene. 
>if decimal
>  is how BSD inet_addr() classically behaved, and i broke it, then i'll change
>  it to decimal.

	Perhaps counter-intuitive to people who grew up drinking from the 
Microsoft-only glass.  Microsoft continues to use leading zeroes in a 
decimal notation, and I don't see any reason why the rest of the 
world needs to change to suit.

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