It's a halloween mask. An octet of 257 is horrorful.

On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Krpata, Tyler wrote:

> Nor do they support octets in IPv4 addresses that are greater than 8
> bits...
> 
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> Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah wrote:
> > OK, I'm thinking it's a subnet mask, and the significance of 255 is
> easy to figure.  
> > 240 and 252 less so, but at least they are within range.  But 257?
> 
> I have encountered many people who don't believe in non-contiguous 
> subnet masks.  To be fair, a number of OSes don't support them anymore.
> 
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