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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 09:44:27 -0400
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: ip(2) man page: return code of parseip() and
	parsemaskip()
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The man page lies.  There is no way to tell using
those functions whether you have parsed a valid
address.

::ffff:192.168.0.1 is *not* an IPv4 address, syntactically.
IPv4 addresses don't have colons and hexadecimal in them.

It may be an IPv6 address that is semantically equivalent
to an IPv4 address, but parseip is just a poor little parser.

Russ