Subject: Re: getaddrinfo(3): shortened IPv4 literal address
To: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
From: Johan Danielsson <joda@pdc.kth.se>
List: tech-net
Date: 04/19/2004 23:21:30
itojun@iijlab.net writes:

> 	RFC2553 says: numeric host address string (i.e., a dotted-decimal
> 		IPv4 address or an IPv6 hex address)
> 	RFC3493 says: If the specified address family is AF_INET or AF_UNSPEC,
> 		address strings using Internet standard dot notation as
> 		specified in inet_addr() are valid.
>
> 	i really dislike the change.  opinions?

I agree, but I don't know if it's worth it to be non-conformant.

/Johan