Yep, that's right. Ping something like 192.168.011.1 and you'll see it actually pings 192.168.9.1
If you give it a number that's not octal, then it treats it as a hostname because it's an invalid number. On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Yves Dorfsman <y...@zioup.com> wrote: > On 2013-04-25 09:12, Ski Kacoroski wrote: > >> Mike, >> >> I get a different behavior: >> >> On LinuxMint Nadia (3.5.0-27 kernel, ping utility, iputils-sss20101006), >> Debian 6, Oracle linux 5 (kernel 2.6.18), solaris 9, Windows 7, and Mac OS >> 10.8 I get: >> >> ping 10.1.2.27, 10.001.2.27, 10.1.002.27 works >> >> ping 10.1.2.027 does this: PING 10.1.2.027 (10.1.2.23) 56(84) bytes of >> data. >> which is consistent with 027 octal being changed into decimal 23. >> >> I am not sure why the conversion does not happen on the other octets. >> > > > Because 02 = 2 and 01 = 1 (octal and decimal are the same for n < 7)? > > -- > Yves. > http://www.SollerS.ca/ > Unix/Linux and Python specialist in > Calgary. > > http://blog.zioup.org/ > > ______________________________**_________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-**bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss<https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss> > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ >
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