Resolver doesn't like 1.2.3.04 in /etc/hosts

Greg Black gjb at gbch.net
Wed Oct 26 15:01:27 PDT 2005


On 2005-10-26, Mark Andrews wrote:
> 	Leading zeros are ambigious.  Some platforms treat them as octal
> 	others treat them as decimal.

There is nothing ambiguous about the example provided.  (Perhaps
it wasn't a good example, but it's always a bug if '04' is not
correctly decoded, regardless of the numeric base in use.)


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