Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>  wrote:
 > On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 05:15:18AM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
 > 
 >  > In 1.5_ALPHA, neither '0' nor '127.1' work as IP numbers, whereas
 >  > '0.0.0.0' and '127.0.0.1' work. What's the idea behind this?
 > 
 > This must be an artifact of getnameinfo() (which is now being used
 > instead of gethostbyname()).

fwiw, this has been a source of minor irritation for me.  I habitually
do stuff like "telnet 0 80"  to check out a web-server or whatever..