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[bug-inetutils] Re: ping: Discard single octets as host name.
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Simon Josefsson |
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[bug-inetutils] Re: ping: Discard single octets as host name. |
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Tue, 07 Dec 2010 13:22:05 +0100 |
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Mats Erik Andersson <address@hidden> writes:
> Hello again,
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> there is an old bug report [1] filed with Debian, which makes much sense.
> It is a wish that the call
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> ping 10
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> should return an error, since no host can consist of a single octet,
> and neither is an IPv4 address with initial octet 0 possible.
Isn't this traditional behaviour of BSD ping?
/Simon
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