From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 26 13:58:43 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E2C616A41F for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:58:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Mark_Andrews@isc.org) Received: from farside.isc.org (farside.isc.org [204.152.187.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D91A43D48 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:58:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Mark_Andrews@isc.org) Received: from drugs.dv.isc.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by farside.isc.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD21367803 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:58:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marka@isc.org) Received: from drugs.dv.isc.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by drugs.dv.isc.org (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j9QDwaBb097354; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 23:58:36 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from marka@drugs.dv.isc.org) Message-Id: <200510261358.j9QDwaBb097354@drugs.dv.isc.org> To: Jan Grant From: Mark Andrews In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:49:01 +0100." Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 23:58:36 +1000 Sender: Mark_Andrews@isc.org Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Resolver doesn't like 1.2.3.04 in /etc/hosts X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:58:43 -0000 > I don't know whether this is worth filing a PR for, but it seems the > resolver no longer likes leading zeroes in an IP4 address in /etc/hosts. > The change (in 5- ) appeared sometime in the last month or two. > > Personally I'm inclined to view this as a regression although it's > simple enough to work around. Leading zeros are ambigious. Some platforms treat them as octal others treat them as decimal. Mark > Cheers, > jan > > -- > jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ > Tel +44 (0)117 3317661 http://ioctl.org/jan/ > Unfortunately, I have a very good idea how fast my keys are moving. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: Mark_Andrews@isc.org