How is 0.0.0.0 handled in Wine?

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Tue Jun 9 00:10:40 CDT 2009


On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Ben Klein<shacklein at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Seems to me to be a bug, i.e., Wine shouldn't be able to use 0.0.0.0.
>> It seems that we're simply passing this on to the host os, which is
>> then routing it back to localhost. Perhaps we need to catch 0.0.0.0 as
>> a special case and refuse?
>
> I'm not sure Wine should be a special case if it's not breaking apps.

While that's arguable , Putty can give a demonstratable corner case
that has behavior different on Windows than on Wine, and it's entirely
likely that there's some other app depending on that behavior that we
*don't* know about.

-- 
-Austin



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