DHCP does not make this moot.
you STILL need to provide sane time-proven ways to configure your ip host.
slamming in a dot or a series of 255's is wrong wrong wrong.
wrong.
just simply wrong.
stop trying to defend a basically ignorant assumption about how ip works.
"it works at MY house and my mommies house, too"
good logic. folks. nice way to write APIs.