Re: [Libbt-devel] Re: Features request

[Alien <ali...@us...>]

Op woensdag 25 mei 2005 13:29, schreef Peter Stuge:
> On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 12:46:15PM +0200, Diego Casorran wrote:
> > > i guess we'll have to put in an additional check to see if it's a
> > > valid IP...
> >
> > Ive created a quick function to do this job, is attached, let me
> > know if it is ok.
>
> IMHO this is a very very bad idea. Private IP networks is a matter of
> politics, not technology, and as such it shouldn't be special-cased
> in software.
>
> I might want to do IP tricks to find a tracker or peers, please don't
> cripple libbt like this.

it is not the purpose of libbt to check for such stuff...

but, proper error handling is to be implemented...