getaddrinfo on macOS doesn't interpret octal IPv4 addresses. Only inet_aton can be used for that. Therefore, from macOS standpoint "0177.0.0.01" is not the same as "127.0.0.1". The issue was also discovered by python and dotnet core: https://bugs.python.org/issue27612 https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/issues/8362 Signed-off-by: Roman Bolshakov <r.bolshakov@xxxxxxxxx> --- tests/sockettest.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/tests/sockettest.c b/tests/sockettest.c index 859f02e51e..2b21352c13 100644 --- a/tests/sockettest.c +++ b/tests/sockettest.c @@ -465,7 +465,11 @@ mymain(void) DO_TEST_LOCALHOST("127.0.0.1", true); DO_TEST_LOCALHOST("2130706433", true); + + /* Octal IPv4 doesn't work in getaddrinfo on macOS */ +#ifndef __APPLE__ DO_TEST_LOCALHOST("0177.0.0.01", true); +#endif DO_TEST_LOCALHOST("::1", true); DO_TEST_LOCALHOST("0::1", true); DO_TEST_LOCALHOST("0:0:0::1", true); -- 2.22.0 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list