full-disclosure - OT microsoft "feature"

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From: blancher at cartel-securite.fr (Cedric Blancher)
Subject: OT microsoft "feature"

Le ven 16/04/2004 ? 15:14, Davide Del Vecchio a ?crit :
> Anyone has a good explaination for this ? 
> Windows XP Professional SP1 
[...]
> C:\>ping 010.10.10.10 
> Esecuzione di Ping 010.10.10.10 [8.10.10.10] con 32 byte di dati: 

Leading 0 means octal notation for numbers.

> Obviously if you try the same thing on a *NIX or IOS the "0" is
> just ignored.

cbr@...uril:~$ uname -a
Linux anduril 2.6.5 #1 Tue Apr 6 20:24:10 CEST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
cbr@...uril:~$ ping 010.010.010.010
PING 010.010.010.010 (8.8.8.8): 56 data bytes
--- 010.010.010.010 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss


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