Bug#323165: accepts malformed addresses

2011-12-27 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Sun, 2011-11-13 at 19:03:00 +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote: > > I think this should cause an error instead of: > > > > rmh@bombadil:~$ ping 1 > > PING 1 (0.0.0.1): 56 data bytes > > I believe this is intended and a feature that comes from using > getaddrinfo. Several programs behave the sa

Bug#323165: accepts malformed addresses

2011-11-13 Thread Simon Josefsson
> I think this should cause an error instead of: > > rmh@bombadil:~$ ping 1 > PING 1 (0.0.0.1): 56 data bytes I believe this is intended and a feature that comes from using getaddrinfo. Several programs behave the same -- you can use "short" numeric addresses like '1', '1.2', '4711' etc and it i

Bug#323165: accepts malformed addresses

2005-08-15 Thread Robert Millan
Package: inetutils-ping Version: 2:1.4.2+20040207-5 Severity: minor I think this should cause an error instead of: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ping 1 PING 1 (0.0.0.1): 56 data bytes -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: kfreebsd-i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin