Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
]] 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?
Yes. Option 2 it is, in the next release.
Cheers,
Simon.
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