New submission from CDirkx <christiaan@dirkx.email>:
Currently the method `ipaddress.is_global` returns true for the IPv4 address 192.0.0.8. This was correct when `is_global` was initially implemented, but in 2015 192.0.0.8 got designated as the "IPv4 dummy address" and not globally reachable, see the IANA special purpose address registry: https://www.iana.org/assignments/iana-ipv4-special-registry/iana-ipv4-special-registry.xhtml. The correct behaviour now, according to the documentation of `is_global` which refers to the IANA registry, would be to return false for 192.0.0.8. ---------- messages: 385127 nosy: cdirkx priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: 192.0.0.8 (IPv4 dummy address) considered globally reachable type: behavior versions: Python 3.9 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue42937> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
