An example is the special broadcast address `255.255.255.255/32` which is being detected as globally routable ``` Abhishek@Abhisheks-MacBook-Pro:~/src/rust (master %=)$ cat ip-test.rs #![feature(ip)] use std::net::Ipv4Addr; fn main() { let x = Ipv4Addr::new(255,255,255,255); println!("{0}", x.is_global()) } Abhishek@Abhisheks-MacBook-Pro:~/src/rust (master %=)$ ./ip-test true Abhishek@Abhisheks-MacBook-Pro:~/src/rust (master %=)$ ./x86_64-apple-darwin/stage2/bin/rustc --version --verbose rustc 1.0.0-dev (c897ac04e 2015-04-10) (built 2015-04-10) binary: rustc commit-hash: c897ac04e2ebda378fd9e38f6ec0878ae3a2baf7 commit-date: 2015-04-10 build-date: 2015-04-10 host: x86_64-apple-darwin release: 1.0.0-dev ``` This is because the code [1] does not take into account these special class of address as defined by RFC 6890 [2]. [1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/src/std/net/ip.rs.html#119 [2] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6890