sshd Failing New Inbound Connections

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Thorsten Glaser wrote in
 <1f7ddbf7-b4da-10a2-62cc-4356ec12534 at tarent.de>:
 |On Sat, 19 Mar 2022, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
 |>>|getaddrinfo() sometimes supports AI_NUMERICHOST which could perhaps
 |>>|be tried once opportunistically, before trying again with it unset?
 |
 |This sounds sensible. AIUI that one skips the resolver.
 |
 |> actually even standardized that "octal numbers" are not supported

..inet_pton..

 |> 127.000.000.001 in form fields etc.
 |
 |These are decimal, to add insult to injury, not octal.
 |
 |Blame the Windows® 95 input fields…

I do.  But here we are and inet_pton was carefully designed to
require academics on the input side.

--steffen
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