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Re: [PATCH v3] [BZ #11438] getaddrinfo: map RFC 1918 addresses toglobal scope

On 09/24/2012 04:43 PM, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
Ping?
According to RFC 6724, section 3.2:

   IPv4 addresses are assigned scopes as follows.  IPv4 auto-
   configuration addresses [RFC3927], which have the prefix 169.254/16,
   are assigned link-local scope.  IPv4 loopback addresses (Section
   4.2.2.11 of [RFC1812]), which have the prefix 127/8, are assigned
   link-local scope (analogously to the treatment of the IPv6 loopback
   address (Section 4 of [RFC4007])).  Other IPv4 addresses (including
   IPv4 private addresses [RFC1918] and Shared Address Space addresses
   [RFC6598]) are assigned global scope.

I double-checked each of those classes of addresses and with this patch we come into compliance with RFC 6724.

I think you should install this patch.

jeff

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