[issue42937] 192.0.0.8 (IPv4 dummy address) considered globally reachable

2021-05-24 Thread Wayne Johnston
Wayne Johnston added the comment: I completely agree with comments about .is_global and special_use. Private IPs are just a subset of special use. For some part Private means the Private use networks reserved by IANA and specified in IETF RFC1918. For this PR "IPv4 dummy ad

[issue42937] 192.0.0.8 (IPv4 dummy address) considered globally reachable

2021-05-17 Thread Wayne Johnston
Change by Wayne Johnston : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +24822 stage: -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/26205 ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/issu

[issue42937] 192.0.0.8 (IPv4 dummy address) considered globally reachable

2021-05-17 Thread Wayne Johnston
Wayne Johnston added the comment: This a simple matter of adding the address to the _private_networks constant. I will add it and issue a pull request today/tomorrow. I could add some of the others too for completeness. However, these are really special use versus private. Private