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Does this violate RFC1123 ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Werner Almesberger)
Sun Sep 10 04:33:16 1995
From: Werner Almesberger <almesber@lrc.epfl.ch>
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 1995 19:49:02 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: hjl@nynexst.com
I've found a nice academic problem: If I type
$ telnet 10.010.010.0x10
under Linux with libc 4.6.27, I get
Trying 10.8.8.16 ...
Now, does this violate section 2.1 of RFC1123 or not ? I think it probably
should go to DNS because of the "x". 010.010.010.010 is even less clear.
(Oh, and we shouldn't feel too bad about this - almost every other system
under the sun does the same thing, be it SysVish, BSDish or non-UNIX, e.g.
UCX on VMS.)
- Werner
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