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Subject: Re: Resolver doesn't like 1.2.3.04 in /etc/hosts
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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.

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Matt Emmerton