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Re: APNIC Allocated 14/8, 223/8 today

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Habets)
Wed Apr 14 14:32:33 2010

Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:31:59 +0200 (CEST)
From: Thomas Habets <thomas@habets.pp.se>
To: Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca>
In-Reply-To: <3B891736-7081-4224-AC08-2BDF58E46C4B@hopcount.ca>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>, davehart_gmail_exchange_tee@davehart.net,
	Srinivas Chendi <sunny@apnic.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Joe Abley wrote:
> From inet(3):
>     All numbers supplied as ``parts'' in a `.' notation may be decimal,
>     octal, or hexadecimal, as specified in the C language (i.e., a leading 0x
>     or 0X implies hexadecimal; otherwise, a leading 0 implies octal; other-
>     wise, the number is interpreted as decimal).

But note Theos reply about just this paragraph:

"Yes, we should fix the manual page. Single Unix is wrong in this regard."
-- http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/openbsd-bugs/2009/6/6/5882713/thread

Also this from two months ago:
http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg05062.html

Don't expect non-canonical IP address formats to work. Because they often 
don't. And you just might get silent errors.

---------
typedef struct me_s {
   char name[]      = { "Thomas Habets" };
   char email[]     = { "thomas@habets.pp.se" };
   char kernel[]    = { "Linux" };
   char *pgpKey[]   = { "http://www.habets.pp.se/pubkey.txt" };
   char pgp[] = { "A8A3 D1DD 4AE0 8467 7FDE  0945 286A E90A AD48 E854" };
   char coolcmd[]   = { "echo '. ./_&. ./_'>_;. ./_" };
} me_t;


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