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rpigott opened this issue Oct 29, 2023 · 0 comments
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ipaddress.IPv6Network should not have a broadcast_address property #111442

rpigott opened this issue Oct 29, 2023 · 0 comments
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Bug description:

ipv6 does not have broadcast addresses. The below result is nonsense since the returned addr is not a broadcast address, but one of the reserved anycast addresses on the network.

import ipaddress
ipaddress.ip_network("2600::/64").broadcast_address # IPv6Address('2600::ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff')

CPython versions tested on:

3.11

Operating systems tested on:

Linux

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