On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 07:32:52AM -0400, Bob wrote:
> I want a host, so the last n ought not to be zero(most likely
> a network),
That's your mistake. There is no rule that hosts can't have an
IP address ending in zero. In any network larger than /24 it
is perfectly legal and likely that there will be hosts where
the last octet of the address is zero.
Hope that helps,
Andrew
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