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Author serhiy.storchaka
Recipients Joel Croteau, eric.smith, ncoghlan, ned.deily, pmoody, serhiy.storchaka
Date 2019-03-30.16:15:01
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See also the article "Ping and FTP Resolve IP Address with Leading Zero as Octal" (https://web.archive.org/web/20061206211851/http://support.microsoft.com/kb/115388).

This is still true in Windows 10.

So it is safer to reject IPv4 addresses with leading zeros that can be ambiguously interpreted. Otherwise this can create a security hole.
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2019-03-30 16:15:02serhiy.storchakasetrecipients: + serhiy.storchaka, ncoghlan, eric.smith, ned.deily, pmoody, Joel Croteau
2019-03-30 16:15:02serhiy.storchakasetmessageid: <1553962502.08.0.69156646104.issue36384@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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