Uros Gaber <uros@ub330.net> writes:
Hi all,
as a developer I can say with some confidence, that a big hurdle is to use hostname instead of IPs, it's way simpler to use IP during development than to use hostname where you have to configure DNS record to do so.
<troll> and DNS always breaks and is way to complicated and it's done by another team and we don't talk to them and creating tickets takes way to much time. ;-) </troll> I'm not a software developer but here are some things I noticed besides hard coded IPs: - wrong/old library functions which only supports IPv4 - regex or any other thing to detect a valid IP address (e.g. a valid IP address has only numbers and) - fields in database that are to small - lack of a proper test environment / proper tests Jens -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Delbrueckstr. 41 | 12051 Berlin, Germany | +49-151-18721264 | | http://blog.quux.de | jabber: jenslink@quux.de | --------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------