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> $ ping 10.0.2.010

> PING 10.0.2.010 (10.0.2.8)...

It was all fun and games until they started mixing bases, decimal and octal in the same address.

That's just cursed.



yep, and I learned to hate IP-Phones this way. Cause some manufacturer (Siemens) wrote (writes?) Decimal IP with 0 Prefix (so it's always three digits) for aesthetics.


Makes them sortable via standard text sorting algo's, too.


I had a case 15 years ago when .255 were accepted in WebGUI and the stack really tried to get that IP, found out only by running Ethereal on a directly connected patch.


Oh hell no!




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