[132409] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: non operational question related to IP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Coulson)
Mon Nov 22 14:55:06 2010
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:54:55 -0500
From: David Coulson <david@davidcoulson.net>
To: Greg Whynott <Greg.Whynott@oicr.on.ca>
In-Reply-To: <0A3857A2-B215-4592-A288-A534D460CEE7@oicr.on.ca>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Prefixing the octet with 0 makes it interpret it as octal, not decimal.
Pretty typical on a UNIX system.
On 11/22/2010 2:52 PM, Greg Whynott wrote:
> i was pinging a host from a windows machine and made a typo which seeme=
d harmless. the end result was it interpreted my input differently than =
what I had intended. thinking this was a m$ issue I quickly took the op=
portunity to poke fun at windows as the senior m$ admin was near by.
>
> "look at how brain dead this os is, it can't even do simple math!"
>
> He is now looking at my screen scratching his head=85..
>
> "watch, i'll open a shell on os x and show you how it can add 0 +10"
>
> I open a shell on os x, same behavior as windows.
>
> " ok so apple is brain dead too, watch, it'll work on linux!"
>
> same deal=85
>
>
> long story short, it does work as expected on all our hardware routing=
gear. still not sure what is happening here=85
>
>
> osx-gwhynott:~ gwhynott$ ping 10.010.10.1
> PING 10.010.10.1 (10.8.10.1): 56 data bytes
>
>
> gwhynott@ops:~$ ping 10.010.10.1
> PING 10.010.10.1 (10.8.10.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
>
>
> CORE1>ping 10.010.10.1
> Type escape sequence to abort.
> Sending 5, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 10.10.10.1, timeout is 2 seconds:
> !!!!!
>
>
> anyone happen to know how the OS's are interpreting the 010? doesn't =
appear work out in base[2-10] (1010,101,22,20,14,13,12,11,10,A)
>
>
> thanks!
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> greg
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