Don't worry, it took me a bit to get it too. :)

I did the exact same thing as you, until the octal thing clicked.

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Ski Kacoroski <kacoro...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 04/25/2013 08:16 AM, Yves Dorfsman wrote:
>
>> On 2013-04-25 09:12, Ski Kacoroski wrote:
>>
>>> Mike,
>>>
>>> I get a different behavior:
>>>
>>> On LinuxMint Nadia (3.5.0-27 kernel, ping utility, iputils-sss20101006),
>>> Debian 6, Oracle linux 5 (kernel 2.6.18), solaris 9, Windows 7, and
>>> Mac OS
>>> 10.8 I get:
>>>
>>> ping 10.1.2.27, 10.001.2.27, 10.1.002.27 works
>>>
>>> ping 10.1.2.027 does this: PING 10.1.2.027 (10.1.2.23) 56(84) bytes of
>>> data.
>>> which is consistent with 027 octal being changed into decimal 23.
>>>
>>> I am not sure why the conversion does not happen on the other octets.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Because 02 = 2 and 01 = 1 (octal and decimal are the same for n < 7)?
>>
>>
> Urgh! you are right.  I will go sit in the corner now.
>
> ski
>
>
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