[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 0010 Use stricter semantics when checking IP address for DNS records

[Petr Viktorin]

On 02/15/2012 12:57 PM, Martin Kosek wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-02-15 at 11:20 +0100, Petr Viktorin wrote:
>> This fixes https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/2379 by using
>> inet_pton instead of inet_aton.
>>
>
> Yeah, this would fix the stricter checking. I planed to improve A/AAAA
> validation in a scope of this ticket, I plan to use CheckedIPAddress to
> be more consistent with the rest of the plugin. I made the change you
> just did in CheckedIPAddress already.
>
> My point is that we may want to be even stricter and forbid for example
> broadcast or multicast addresses to be placed to A/AAAA records.
>
> Martin
>

That was a NACK; Martin wanted to this himself.

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Petr³