Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 10:11:00 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net> To: Matt Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> Cc: Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews@isc.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Resolver doesn't like 1.2.3.04 in /etc/hosts Message-ID: <nospam-1130371860.98702@iliad.gbch.net> In-Reply-To: <003b01c5da89$88c3df80$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <nospam-1130364081.97337@iliad.gbch.net> <003b01c5da89$88c3df80$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
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On 2005-10-26, Matt Emmerton wrote: > > 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. The bases discussed here were 8 and 10; my comment applied to them. As for base 3, I don't care what you write using it, I won't be bothering about it.
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