Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: Possible /etc/hosts parsing bug? | Date | Mon, 18 Nov 1996 19:39:32 +0000 (GMT) |
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> 172.016.002.001 Atomic.shocking.com > 172.016.002.002 Nuclear.shocking.com > 172.016.002.003 Fusion.shocking.com > > Numerically, these have the same values, but when I tried to ping fusion, > the IP that it was using was 172.14.2.3. When the extra '0's were deleted > ping worked fine. Is this within the operating specs? Just curious,
Yeah. You are allowed to use leading 0 to indicate octal and leading 0x for hex.
Alan
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