]] Simon Kelley | The name (10.1.2.) gets fed to inet_addr, which (possibly | surprisingly) considers it be a valid representation of 10.1.0.2 .
Oh, that's not particularly surprising. I'd rather have it be 10.1.2.0, but POSIX doesn't allow that. | There are various changes that could be made: | | 1) get NXDOMAIN for any A for A query (that's what you'll get from | BIND - it just forwards the query to a root server.) | | 2) Don't do A for A processing unless the query has four octets, so | that 10.1.2. is NXDOMAIN but 10.1.2.1 is OK. | | 3) return 10.1.2.0 for dig A 10.1.2 I think I agree with you in that option 2 is the best. | Note that inet_addr does other surprising things: | | dig +short 4556563 | 0.69.135.19 Yeah, well-known. That'll also go away with option 2, right? -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
