ipfw table add problem

[Ben Morrow]

Quoth Ian Lepore <ian at FreeBSD.org>:
> On Mon, 2013-11-25 at 15:30 +1100, Ian Smith wrote:
> > On Sun, 24 Nov 2013 23:56:14 +0400, Alexander V. Chernikov wrote:
> > 
> > I'm wondering if "so don't do that" is really sufficient to deal with 
> > this?  If it's not recognised as a valid address, shouldn't it fail to 
> > add anything, with a complaint?  I don't see how a string containing 
> > dots can be seen as a valid unsigned integer?
> 
> It's still not clear to me that inet_pton() is doing the right thing.
> Per the rfc cited earlier in the thread, it's not supposed to interpret
> the digits as octal or hex -- they are specifically declared to be
> decimal numbers.  There's nothing invalid about "01" as a decimal
> number.  The fact that many of us have a C-programming background and
> tend to think of leading-zero as implying octal doesn't change that.

OTOH having inet_pton and inet_aton treat 10.0.0.010 as different
addresses would be rather confusing.

Ben