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Date:      Wed, 27 Jul 2005 09:03:27 -0400
From:      Mikhail Teterin <mi+kde@aldan.algebra.com>
To:        Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@freebsd.org>
Cc:        standards@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, "Mikhail T." <mi@aldan.algebra.com>
Subject:   Re: bin/84106: inet_pton(AF_INET6, ....) seems too permissive
Message-ID:  <200507270903.28085@aldan>
In-Reply-To: <ygesly0zg0x.wl%ume@mahoroba.org>
References:  <200507260442.j6Q4gDHh028351@blue.virtual-estates.net> <ygesly0zg0x.wl%ume@mahoroba.org>

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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





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