[132416] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: non operational question related to IP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Brown)
Mon Nov 22 15:12:29 2010
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:09:29 -0500
From: Michael Brown <michael@supermathie.net>
To: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
In-Reply-To: <D1AE555B-EF66-48C4-AC3B-C6373E2CE131@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>, Greg Whynott <Greg.Whynott@oicr.on.ca>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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.
M.
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