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> 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
