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

[Brad Knowles]

At 1:27 PM -0700 2000/9/5, Paul A Vixie wrote:

>  not only bindv9 but glibc and the various *BSD's who roll their own
>  gethostbyname().  this is not a small undertaking.  all the world's not
>  only not a vax, but it doesn't run raw BSD or BIND, either.

	Wow.  I didn't realize that the issue was so complex.

	I do not envy you your position.

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