On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Owen DeLong <o...@delong.com> wrote: >Yes, this was because some very old (current at the time, however) >implementations of gethostbyname(3) were implemented in such a way that if >the first character they saw returned isdigit()==TRUE, then, >they would assume that they had been passed an IP address >and would attempt to encode the string as an IP address rather >than looking it up in /etc/hosts or DNS.
Now I'm going to have to look at the current gethostbyname(3) and see what happens if we ever get a tld that is a decimal number under 255. Yet another reason for IPv6. -- Joe Hamelin, W7COM, Tulalip, WA, 360-474-7474
