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From: oconstantin at bitdefender.com (Ovidiu Constantin)
Subject: OT microsoft "feature"

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Pe data de Vin 16 Apr 2004 16:14, Davide Del Vecchio a scris:
> 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...

It's not a Windows "feature", linux:

[ovidiu@...ie ovidiu]$ ping 010.010.10.10
PING 010.010.10.10 (8.8.10.10) 56(84) bytes of data.

- --- 010.010.10.10 ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 1010ms

The leading 0 makes ping interpret the numbers as octal. And 10 in octal is 
exactly 8 in decimal. Mistery solved.

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