On 11/22/2010 02:58 PM, Steven Bellovin wrote: > 010 is how C represents an octal number. This one is known in decimal as 8. Obviously, what Greg meant to type was: $ ping 012.0xA.10.1 PING 012.0xA.10.1 (10.10.10.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
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