Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 13:10:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: misc/18251: inet_aton(204.08.126.0) failure Message-ID: <200004272010.NAA04512@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR misc/18251; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>
To: pavlin@catarina.usc.edu
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, pavlin@catarina.usc.edu
Subject: Re: misc/18251: inet_aton(204.08.126.0) failure
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 13:02:49 -0700
This is documented in the inet_aton() man page:
All numbers supplied as ``parts'' in a `.' notation may be decimal, oc-
tal, or hexadecimal, as specified in the C language (i.e., a leading 0x
or 0X implies hexadecimal; otherwise, a leading 0 implies octal; other-
wise, the number is interpreted as decimal).
Many people think that inet_aton() only takes dotted decimal, but
it actually also accepts hex and octal and addresses with less than
4 dots.
Bill
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