Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 07:20:31 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [OT] Domain names that are just numbers -- what's this?? Message-ID: <20010624072031.A43354@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <20010623201951.C30874@blossom.cjclark.org>; from cristjc@earthlink.net on Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 08:19:51PM -0700 References: <3B31292E.8EC9C976@iowna.com> <20010620184659.M91984@happy.cow.org> <3B312E9C.23E1178D@iowna.com> <20010621090240.H25711@everest.wananchi.com> <20010624054246.B8150@hades.hell.gr> <20010623201951.C30874@blossom.cjclark.org>
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On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 08:19:51PM -0700, Crist J. Clark wrote:
> Resolving a decimal number as an IP address works fine for me on
> -STABLE,
>
> % ping 2130706433
Ahem. This works correctly for me too.
charon@hades:~% ping 2130706433
PING 2130706433 (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.271 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.284 ms
^C
--- 2130706433 ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.271/0.277/0.284/0.007 ms
It might be that our gethostbyname2() performs more strict checks on
the input values. I'll check it out when I manage to get some sleep.
-giorgos
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