inet_pton and oddly-formatted addresses

Sat Jan 20 21:04:03 UTC 2007

Hi,

>>>>> On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 14:28:07 -0500
>>>>> Ed Maste <emaste at phaedrus.sandvine.ca> said:

emaste> I think an address like 1.002.3.4 is bizarre, but is our inet_pton incorrect
emaste> in rejecting it?

The change was taken from BIND9.  The following is from BIND9's
CHANGES:

	 935.	[bug]		inet_pton failed to reject leading zeros.

Sincerely,

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