Hi Pedro, Thanks for filing the bug and making cloud-init better. I can confirm locally with the following: cat > LP1978543.yaml < return_value = main(sys.argv) File "/home/csmith/src/cloud-init/cloudinit/cmd/main.py", line 1059, in main retval = util.log_time( File "/home/csmith/src/cloud-init/cloudinit/util.py", line 2621, in log_time ret = func(*args, **kwargs) File "/home/csmith/src/cloud-init/cloudinit/cmd/devel/net_convert.py", line 136, in handle_args ns = network_state.parse_net_config_data(pre_ns) File "/home/csmith/src/cloud-init/cloudinit/net/network_state.py", line 1056, in parse_net_config_data nsi.parse_config(skip_broken=skip_broken) File "/home/csmith/src/cloud-init/cloudinit/net/network_state.py", line 279, in parse_config self.parse_config_v2(skip_broken=skip_broken) File "/home/csmith/src/cloud-init/cloudinit/net/network_state.py", line 328, in parse_config_v2 handler(self, command) File "/home/csmith/src/cloud-init/cloudinit/net/network_state.py", line 721, in handle_ethernets subnets = self._v2_to_v1_ipcfg(cfg) File "/home/csmith/src/cloud-init/cloudinit/net/network_state.py", line 880, in _v2_to_v1_ipcfg _normalize_route( File "/home/csmith/src/cloud-init/cloudinit/net/network_state.py", line 1019, in _normalize_route _normalize_net_keys( File "/home/csmith/src/cloud-init/cloudinit/net/network_state.py", line 953, in _normalize_net_keys raise ValueError(f"Address {addr} is not a valid ip address") ValueError: Address default is not a valid ip address When I change `to: default` to the alternative `to: 0.0.0.0/0` we render correctly without error csmith@uptown:~/src/cloud-init$ PYTHONPATH=. python3 -m cloudinit.cmd.main devel net-convert -m enp0s3,AA -O netplan --k yaml -p LP1978543.yaml -D ubuntu -d out Read input format 'yaml' from 'LP1978543.yaml'. Wrote output format 'netplan' to 'out/' csmith@uptown:~/src/cloud-init$ cat out/etc/netplan/50-cloud-init.yaml # This file is generated from information provided by the datasource. Changes # to it will not persist across an instance reboot. To disable cloud-init's # network configuration capabilities, write a file # /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/99-disable-network-config.cfg with the following: # network: {config: disabled} network: ethernets: enp0s3: addresses: - 10.0.4.10/24 dhcp4: false nameservers: addresses: - 10.0.4.1 routes: - metric: 100 to: 0.0.0.0/0 via: 10.0.4.1 version: 2