On 3 August 2017 at 18:08, Andrew Nester <newaltgroup@bk.ru> wrote:
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>> On Jun 13, 2017, at 6:03 PM, Andrew Nester <newaltgroup@bk.ru> wrote:
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>> Hello!
>> Currently I am working on bug #74699 (Thanks brianlmoon for pointing this issue).
>>
>> Here is some details:
>> In patch applied for bug #72972 IP address block 240.0.0.0/4 has been removed from list of reserved.
>>
>> But according to IP Multicast Address Specification:
>> “The range of addresses between 224.0.0.0 and 224.0.0.255, inclusive,
>> is reserved for the use of routing protocols and other low-leveltopology discovery or maintenance protocols,
>> such as gateway discoveryand group membership reporting.
>> Multicast routers should not forwardany multicast datagram with destination addresses in this range,regardless of its TTL.”
>>
>> Here is the full specification:
>> https://www.iana.org/assignments/multicast-addresses/multicast-addresses.xhtml
>>
>> That’s why my PR introducing changes to include addresses between 224.0.0.0 and 224.0.0.255 in list of reserved.
>> Here is link to my PR
>> https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/2562
>>
>> Thanks!
>
>
> Any updates on this?
> Does it look like reasonable change?
I'm bumping this message as I believe that a lot of people are not
receiving Andrew's emails due to his email configuration being borked,
and the issues seems like something that should be resolved.
cheers
Dan
