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From: Mikhail Teterin <mi+kde@aldan.algebra.com>
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Subject: Re: bin/84106: inet_pton(AF_INET6, ....) seems too permissive
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The following reply was made to PR bin/84106; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Mikhail Teterin <mi+kde@aldan.algebra.com>
To: Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@freebsd.org>
Cc: "Mikhail T." <mi@aldan.algebra.com>, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org,
        standards@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/84106: inet_pton(AF_INET6, ....) seems too permissive
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 09:03:27 -0400

 On Wednesday 27 July 2005 06:42 am, Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote:
 = mi> 		1:2:3:4:5:6:7::8
 = mi> 	or
 = mi> 		1:2:3:4:5:6::7:8
 = mi> 	inet_pton should reject (return 0) both of these addresses.
  
 = No, I don't think so.  I cannot see such restriction in RFC 2373 2.2
 = Text Representation of Addresses.  Isn't it a problem of NSPR's
 = addtest?
 
 I thought, 8 positions is the most an IPv6 address can have. This
 strings have 9, don't they?
 
 I don't know :-) But the NSPR maintainer thinks, this is a bug:
 
 	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=301987
 
 Thanks!
 
 	-mi