On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

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> On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:01:27 +0800
> Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
>
>> Krzysztof Oledzki <ole@ans.pl> wrote:
>>>
>>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/shemminger/iproute2.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h...
>>>
>>> ;)
>>
>> Hmm, this breaks several scripts of mine that use 10/8.  Couldn't
>> we just fall back to the old loop when inet_aton fails?
>>
>> Thanks,
>
>
> There is no easy solution, I'll will have to go back rewrite this
> code, and will document the result. I expect the result will displease
> someone, but given the original code that is just going to happen.
>
> Busted cases:
>                           correct           incorrect
> Original code: 127.2   =>  127.0.0.2         127.2.0.0
> inet_pton:     10.0    =>  10.0.0.0          fails invalid
> inet_aton:     10      =>  10.0.0.0          0.0.0.10
>
> The problem was Alexey (or Jamal) invented their own abbreviation format
> and did not follow unix standard conventions.

It seems that the original code followed the unix standard:

# telnet 127.2
Trying 127.0.0.2...
telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.2: Connection refused

Best regards,

 				Krzysztof Ol