Don't worry, it took me a bit to get it too. :) I did the exact same thing as you, until the octal thing clicked.
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Ski Kacoroski <kacoro...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 04/25/2013 08:16 AM, Yves Dorfsman 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)? >> >> > Urgh! you are right. I will go sit in the corner now. > > ski > > > -- > "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it > connected to the entire universe" John Muir > > Chris "Ski" Kacoroski, Director of LOPSA, s...@lopsa.org, > 206-501-9803 or ski98033 on most IM services > ______________________________**_________________ > 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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