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

[LaMont Jones]

> 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 migh
> be depending on this function to work this way.  what do you think would happ
> if we made a late change of this kind?

One could always make it a config option (default decimal, since that is
the probably the better camp to land in), and then switch between
strtol(..., 10) and strtol(..., 0) as appropriate when converting.

lamont