Re: [tlug] Problems with au ADSL/network setup

[David Smith-Uchida <dave@example.com>]

> That sounds like broken software to me. I've never seen an IP
> address in such a format ("dotted octal"?), and I've been around the
> UNIX and TCP/IP world a rather long time (though it sounds like not
> as long as you :=).

Or you haven't been confronted with an anal-retentive AIX systems administrator in recent times since AIX apparently continues to do it (http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/aix/v6r1/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.aix.files%2Fdoc%2Faixfiles%2Fhosts.htm).  Looks like Linux has stopped interpreting the hosts file as anything other than decimal but this behavior still occurs in Ubuntu 12:

> ping 010.010.010.010
PING 010.010.010.010 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.

Furthermore, inet_aton documents octal addresses, so maybe it's the hosts file that's broken now :-).  Maybe I should file a bug?

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