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Message-ID: <14900000.1082123965@ratbert.sjbcom.com>
From: sacha-fulldisclosure at sjbcom.com (Sacha J. Bernstein)
Subject: OT microsoft "feature"

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@...ghieri.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@...com.com