When pinging, you can leave out the 3rd octet and windows will pad the address to fill the missing 3rd octet with 0. This also works if you leave out the 2nd and 3rd. Heck, it even works without the 1st :)
I've noticed this for quite a while, but have never seen it discussed. Can anyone tell me why this works? Is it in a spec? Or, just an interesting anomaly? I use it as a shortcut pretty often and just never bothered to research it much. C:\>ping 10.1.1 Pinging 10.1.0.1 with 32 bytes of data: C:\>ping 10.1 Pinging 10.0.0.1 with 32 bytes of data: C:\>ping 10 Pinging 0.0.0.10 with 32 bytes of data:
