Subject: Re: Error: an inet prefix is expected rather than "0/0".

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:18:55 -0700

On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:15:18 +0200 (CEST)
Krzysztof Oledzki <[email-masked]> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:01:27 +0800
> > Herbert Xu <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >
> >> Krzysztof Oledzki <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/shemminger/iproute2.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=2ca4abdcb823e708b88156f947fa5b493055618a
> >>>
> >>> ;)
> >>
> >> Hmm, this breaks several scripts of mine that use 10/8.  Couldn't
> >> we just fall back to the old loop when inet_aton fails?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >
> >
> > There is no easy solution, I'll will have to go back rewrite this
> > code, and will document the result. I expect the result will displease
> > someone, but given the original code that is just going to happen.
> >
> > Busted cases:
> >                           correct           incorrect
> > Original code: 127.2   =>  127.0.0.2         127.2.0.0
> > inet_pton:     10.0    =>  10.0.0.0          fails invalid
> > inet_aton:     10      =>  10.0.0.0          0.0.0.10
> >
> > The problem was Alexey (or Jamal) invented their own abbreviation format
> > and did not follow unix standard conventions.
> 
> It seems that the original code followed the unix standard:
> 
> # telnet 127.2
> Trying 127.0.0.2...
> telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.2: Connection refused

The incorrect column lists the actual result for each of the routines.
Original code converted 127.2 to 127.2.0.0