On Monday 2014-11-10 23:14, grantksupport@operamail.com wrote:
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014, at 01:43 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Monday 2014-11-10 22:29, grantksupport@operamail.com wrote:
IPADDR="0.0.0.0"
0.0.0.0 is not a valid address to be used. You probably should remove the line (even in case of non-wicked 13.1).
0.0.0.0 is widely referenced, and widely used for initialization and config of tun interfaces by OS on system boot. On init of the VPN, app up-scripts assign the actual IP.
Can you provide a documentation reference for your claim that it's neither legitimate nor allowed use?
"0.0.0.0 is a non-routable meta-address used to designate an invalid, unknown [...] target" (from the so-called experts at Wikipedia). IPADDR= is generally for assigning regular addresses, of which 0.0.0.0 is not one, because of its special meaning. In Linux and other systems, 0.0.0.0 is not assigned. You will never see it in `ip addr`. To specify "unset", the empty set rather than the 1-element set {0.0.0.0}, in both display and configuration files, because that makes a lot more sense. The only place 0.0.0.0 is normally encountered is with fields of fixed size (i.e. an implementation detail of programs) and programs with bad user interface design which expose this fixedness, this "there must be exactly one address" thing (like the Windows network config dialog). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org