Bah...looks like this was solved before I even responded. I believe that was record response times on this mailing list!
-Evan On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Evan Pettrey <jepett...@gmail.com> wrote: > Mike, > > I'm not to provide an answer. However, I just tested this in a Windows > environment and I can pad any of the last 3 octets. However, padding the > first octet results in pinging with base-8 vs. 10...perhaps that is a clue? > > > Best, > Evan > > > On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Mike Julian <m...@mikejulian.com> wrote: > >> Perhaps this is totally normal behavior, in which case, I'm really >> curious why: >> >> If I ping an IP with padded zeros in the last octet (eg, 192.168.1.001), >> the ping succeeds. >> >> If any other octet is padded (eg, 192.168.001.1), the ping treats the IP >> as a hostname and fails. It fails no matter how many octets are padded, or >> which ones (excepting the last octet by itself). >> >> I've noticed this behavior on RHEL6 and OSX (10.8). >> >> Any thoughts? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> Discuss@lists.lopsa.org >> 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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