>>>>> On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 21:42:44 +0000 (UTC), 
>>>>> "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.

> well, maybe they were wrong? How does one get in contact with their
> bugs database these days? Is comp.protocols.dns.bind still a good
> place to discuss these things?

Or [EMAIL PROTECTED]  And yes, I'd ask the question at some
BIND-specific list.

                                        JINMEI, Tatuya
                                        Communication Platform Lab.
                                        Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp.
                                        [EMAIL PROTECTED]

p.s. 1.002.3.4 is "illegal" according to RFC3986, Section 3.2.2
(although it's specified in the context of a URI), so "what is legal"
is probably a controversial issue.
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