Re: bind() allowed to non-local addresses

[Eric Lammerts]

On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Matt Peterson wrote:
> Are you also suggesting that every other program that expects bind() to
> fail with EADDRNOTAVAIL are broken too?  Just for fun, I greped all
> sources of software shipped in Caldera's distributions for instances of
> where a check is made for EADDRNOTAVAIL after a call to bind().  Guess
> what else besides Java is probably "broken" ...
> 
> - lpng
> - bind 8.2
> - automount
> - cvs 
> - dhcpd
> - KDE
> - UCL mbone
> - ncftp
> - netatalk
> - nfsd
> - rexec
> - pppd
> - sendmail
> - xchat

Just for fun I looked at the sources of cvs, ncftp, netatalk, rexec
and pppd. Guess what? None of them check for EADDRNOTAVAIL after a
call to bind(). Cvs and pppd don't even call bind()!

Get your facts straight, please.

Eric


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