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I wonder how many firewalls would break with some of these? I hope they would fail closed (block unexpected traffic). Their stacks probably work on the packet binary data...but the GUI?

The GUI shouldn't accept addresses it cannot verify. At the network level nothing will break, because it's the same binary representation.

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