Bug#457472: openssh-client: ssh resolves some hosts to 1.0.0.0
On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 07:40:24PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Colin Watson:
[Please don't remove attributions. Vincent Lefevre wrote this bit.]
> >> [*] 1.0.0.0 isn't even a valid IP address, is it?
> >
> > Depends on the situation. You wouldn't want to give a host that
> > address,
>
> Why not? Subnet zero is no longer reserved. The whole /8 is currently
> not assigned, but that's a different matter.
I was under the impression that it was conventional even if not required
to reserve host zero in a given subnet to identify the network itself,
to avoid confusion of networks with hosts.
Still, we're in agreement on the basic implementation issue so it
doesn't matter too much.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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