Re: OT microsoft "feature"

["Sacha J. Bernstein" <sacha-fulldisclosure () sjbcom com>]

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 
<dante () alighieri org> 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.



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Sacha J. Bernstein
sacha () sjbcom com

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