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

[Mr. James W. Laferriere]

	Hello Brad ,  As long as the default is the present "leading
	zero's represent Octal values" , I can agree with the changes
	to allow an option at either level .  Tia ,  JimL

On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Brad Knowles wrote:
> 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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