bin/84106: inet_pton(AF_INET6, ....) seems too permissive

[Mikhail Teterin]

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