From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 26 22:01:27 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 CE8B616A41F for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 22:01:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gjb@gbch.net) Received: from gw.gbch.net (gw.gbch.net [203.143.238.93]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B8BF943D48 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 22:01:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gjb@gbch.net) Received: (qmail 85938 invoked from network); 27 Oct 2005 08:01:23 +1000 Received: from iliad.gbch.net (172.16.1.9) by gw.gbch.net with SMTP; 27 Oct 2005 08:01:23 +1000 Received: (qmail 97338 invoked by uid 1001); 27 Oct 2005 08:01:21 +1000 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 08:01:21 +1000 From: Greg Black To: Mark Andrews References: <200510261358.j9QDwaBb097354@drugs.dv.isc.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200510261358.j9QDwaBb097354@drugs.dv.isc.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i; gjb-muttsend.sh 1.7 2004-10-05 X-Uptime: 16 days X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE i386 X-Location: Brisbane, Australia; 27.49841S 152.98439E X-URL: http://www.gbch.net/gjb.html X-Blog: http://www.gbch.net/gjb/blog/ X-Image-URL: http://www.gbch.net/gjb/gjb-auug048.gif X-PGP-Key-Fingerprint: EBB2 2A92 A79D 1533 AC00 3C46 5D83 B6FB 4B04 B7D6 X-Request-PGP: http://www.gbch.net/keys/4B04B7D6.asc 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 22:01:27 -0000 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.)