Hello Durga,
I think that's a strange way to write an IP address.
If you do man 3 inet_addr the format for the dotted address is
explained. As stated in that man page:
In all of the above forms, components of the dotted address can be
specified in decimal, octal (with a leading 0), or hexadecimal,
with a leading 0X). Addresses in any of these forms are
collectively termed IPV4 numbers-and-dots notation. The form that
uses exactly four decimal numbers is referred to as IPv4
dotted-decimal notation (or sometimes: IPv4 dotted-quad notation).
An example is given:
$ ./a.out 226.000.000.037 # Last byte is in octal
So 037 is octal not decimal.
Because 6 is less than 7 you can get away with it, but not for long with
other numerical values that exceed octal. I think its inviting trouble
for maintainers of your code.
Andrew
On 11/8/19 2:59 am, Durga Prasad Malyala wrote:
I am curious what is the format of IP addresses in /etc/postfix/access.
i.e. will it understand 006.45.023.230 instead of the common 6.45.23.230 ?
