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		dan_linder 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fun with IP address parsing (2020) I wonder how many firewalls would break with some of these? I hope they would fail closed (block unexpected traffic). Their stacks probably work on the packet binary data...but the GUI?

PinkSheep 9 months ago [–]

The GUI shouldn't accept addresses it cannot verify. At the network level nothing will break, because it's the same binary representation.

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