Hint: leading 0 indicates base 8, not base 10. :-)

-- Corey

On Apr 25, 2013, at 7:54 AM, Mike Julian <[email protected]> wrote:

> Perhaps this is totally normal behavior, in which case, I'm really curious 
> why:
> 
> If I ping an IP with padded zeros in the last octet (eg, 192.168.1.001), the 
> ping succeeds.
> 
> If any other octet is padded (eg, 192.168.001.1), the ping treats the IP as a 
> hostname and fails. It fails no matter how many octets are padded, or which 
> ones (excepting the last octet by itself).
> 
> I've noticed this behavior on RHEL6 and OSX (10.8).
> 
> Any thoughts?
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