On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Robert Vojta wrote: > Hi, > I'm seeking for some RFC document or something like this which is describing > exact dotted IP address format. I'm looking for answers like: is > 010.000.000.001 right or wrong ip address, etc. If is possible to write > ip address with leading zeroes or if it is some standard violation ... This is interesting. [swmike@uplift ~]$ ping 010.010.050.010 Warning: no SO_TIMESTAMP support, falling back to SIOCGSTAMP PING 010.010.050.010 (8.8.40.8) from <removed> : 56(84) bytes of data. Seems linux interprets 010 in octal. -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
