[atlas] IPv4 leading zeroes and weird interface behaviour

It was warned before on this IETF draft, but it was never published:
  <https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-main-ipaddr-text-rep-02.txt>

Hugo

On 13:54 25/10, Phillip Remaker wrote:
> Historically, C uses a 0 to precede an octal number, 0x to precede a
> decimal, and 0b for binary. Leading zeroes are otherwise stripped in
> numerical representation.
> 
> Since 0x is not accepted, I'd call it a bug and request that the numbers
> always get treated as decimal, regardless of leading zeros.
> 
> There's probably some downstream library making the anachronistic
> assumption.
> 
> On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 1:45 PM, Max Grobecker <
> max.grobecker at ml.grobecker.info> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > is there - by standard - a definition on how to represent an IPv4 address?
> >
> > I have (for example) the IP address "73.0.255.229", which can IMHO also be
> > written as "073.000.255.229" as the leading zeroes
> > are not giving any changes to the binary representation of this address.
> > Am I right on this?
> >
> > But: When I lookup this IP address on https://stat.ripe.net/073.000.
> > 255.229 the first octet is internally getting swapped to "59".
> > This can be explained, if you take "073" as an octal value and convert it
> > to a decimal value.
> > It is definitely a octal-to-decimal conversion thing, as for example also
> > the value "010" is getting replaced by "8" and so on.
> >
> > Now I'm puzzled: Of course, writing IPv4 octets with leading zeroes is not
> > very common.
> > But: Is it officially prohibited or discouraged?
> >
> > This weird conversion also happens inside the "geoiplookup" tool by
> > MaxMind and I'm not sure if I'm going to be the moron in this story
> > or if I found the same bug inside multiple softwares at once ;-)
> >
> >
> > Thanks and greetings from Wuppertal
> >  Max
> >
> >
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