On Sun, Jan 2, 2022, 00:23 Ondrej Zajicek <santi...@crfreenet.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 01, 2022 at 10:07:12PM +0100, Alexander Zubkov wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I found a funny bug, when made some tests. I found out that if you try > > to give bird a full-length IPv6-address, like: > > ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff > > 1111:2222:3333:4444:5555:6666:7777:8888 > > You will get an error: "syntax error, unexpected BYTESTRING". > > Hi > > Thanks for remainding me about that issue. I noticed that some time ago, > fixed it in one of my private branches and then completely forgot about > that. Will merge it. > > > I find it happens in conf/cf-lex.l because of how BYTESTRING is > > defined before IP6, it is too liberal to the forms of bytestrings, > > allowing almost arbitrary mix of ':' and digits. I suspect the idea > > was it allow 32-digit strings without delimters or with groups of 2 > > digits delimited by ':'. See proposed changes in the patch. By the > > way, that possibility for string literals is not documented. :) > > The idea is 32-digit or more. Also, it is not generic string literals, > Ok, then my patch is not fully correct, but you know what to do anyway. :) it is limited to cryptographic keys, and documented: > You are right. Sorry, my bad, missed that part. > A password can also be specified as a hexadecimal key. <m/hex_key/ is a > sequence of hexadecimal digit pairs, optionally colon-separated. A key > specified this way must be at least 16 bytes (32 digits) long (although > specific algorithms can impose other restrictions). > > -- > Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo > > Ondrej 'Santiago' Zajicek (email: santi...@crfreenet.org) > OpenPGP encrypted e-mails preferred (KeyID 0x11DEADC3, wwwkeys.pgp.net) > "To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so." >
