Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 20:01:00 -0400 From: "Matt Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "Greg Black" <gjb@gbch.net>, "Mark Andrews" <Mark_Andrews@isc.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Resolver doesn't like 1.2.3.04 in /etc/hosts Message-ID: <003b01c5da89$88c3df80$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <Pine.GSO.4.62.0510261446330.1375@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk><200510261358.j9QDwaBb097354@drugs.dv.isc.org> <nospam-1130364081.97337@iliad.gbch.net>
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> On 2005-10-26, Mark Andrews wrote: > > Leading zeros are ambigious. Some platforms treat them as octal > > others treat them as decimal. > > There is nothing ambiguous about the example provided. (Perhaps > it wasn't a good example, but it's always a bug if '04' is not > correctly decoded, regardless of the numeric base in use.) Not to belittle the point, but '04' is invalid for base-2/3/4. -- Matt Emmerton
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