On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
Robert Watson <rwat...@freebsd.org> writes:
Does this maintain compatibility for people who may still mysteriously
be specifying class-based IPs and netmasks in configuration files? If
not, this should not be MFC'd...
Here's the really ugly part...
% ping 10
PING 10 (0.0.0.10): 56 data bytes
% ping 10.1
PING 10.1 (10.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
% ping 10.1.1
PING 10.1.1 (10.1.0.1): 56 data bytes
This makes no sense at all today, but we can't fix it, because it's the
documented and standard-mandated behavior of inet_pton(3) and, if I'm not
mistaken, getaddrinfo(3).
Sadly, I'm familiar with this already :-(. However, for the time being, I'm
less concerned about ugliness, and more concerned about breaking existing
scripts and tools.
Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
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