Thorsten Glaser wrote in <1f7ddbf7-b4da-10a2-62cc-4356ec12534@xxxxxxxxx>: |On Sat, 19 Mar 2022, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: |>>|getaddrinfo() sometimes supports AI_NUMERICHOST which could perhaps |>>|be tried once opportunistically, before trying again with it unset? | |This sounds sensible. AIUI that one skips the resolver. | |> actually even standardized that "octal numbers" are not supported ..inet_pton.. |> 127.000.000.001 in form fields etc. | |These are decimal, to add insult to injury, not octal. | |Blame the Windows® 95 input fields… I do. But here we are and inet_pton was carefully designed to require academics on the input side. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt) _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev