I did misunderstand you, and also, I was not aware of the behaviour that you are referencing.

Do you have a solid reference (from an RFC, STD, FYI, ISO, or POSIX document?) that describes this addressing notation? I did quite a few searches myself, and other than a few manpages that describes 'this is how inet_aton works', and the source code for inet_aton in GLIBC describing the intended effect, I cannot find any reference on the Internet that describes this 'feature'. In fact, I find the opposite. RFC's regarding the use of addresses in an email address seem to require that each decimal integer be in the range 0-255 (although they also seem to require 4 integers).

Netscape on Linux supports addresses such as http://192.1204551/ (aka http://192.18.97.71/ aka http://java.sun.com/). Internet Explorer under Windows does not. Are you certain that this feature is portable? Or was it a convenient notation that was merely introduced in one of the earlier BSD tracks, and has continued to exist until today? Until I can verify that this feature is standard and portable, I cannot agree with your correction. I would appreciate it if you could prove to me that I am wrong. I hate not knowing.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: gethostbyname("1.1.1") returns 1.1.0.1 ???? by MarkM
in thread gethostbyname("1.1.1") returns 1.1.0.1 ???? by Anonymous Monk

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