The leading zero specifies that the number following is octal. This is expected behavior, and you will find that Solaris, FreeBSD, and Solaris all act exactly the same.


Sacha


--On Friday, April 16, 2004 15:14:24 +0200 Davide Del Vecchio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Hi list,
I`m sorry for the OT,
Anyone has a good explaination for this ?
Windows XP Professional SP1
....
C:\>ping 010.010.010.010
Esecuzione di Ping 010.010.010.010 [8.8.8.8] con 32 byte di dati:
Control-C
^C
C:\>
Obviously if you try the same thing on a *NIX or IOS the "0" is
just ignored.
It seems like the 0 character implies a modification in the IP field..
It`s not a bug of the "ping" command, because it "works" on telnet,
ftp...
d.



--- Sacha J. Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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