tech-net: Re: telnet 0: No address associated with hostname

Subject: Re: telnet 0: No address associated with hostname
To: None <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
From: Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: tech-net
Date: 07/29/2000 12:34:04

>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 is because we switched name resolution code in telnet(1) from
	inet_aton(3) to getaddrinfo(3).  getaddrinfo(3) is specified to take
	full dot-quad only.  do we need to provide backward compatibility
	for this?  if so, we need to perform:
		inet_aton -> inet_ntop -> getaddrinfo

itojun