Mike, I'm not to provide an answer. However, I just tested this in a Windows environment and I can pad any of the last 3 octets. However, padding the first octet results in pinging with base-8 vs. 10...perhaps that is a clue?
Best, Evan On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Mike Julian <m...@mikejulian.com> wrote: > Perhaps this is totally normal behavior, in which case, I'm really curious > why: > > If I ping an IP with padded zeros in the last octet (eg, 192.168.1.001), > the ping succeeds. > > If any other octet is padded (eg, 192.168.001.1), the ping treats the IP > as a hostname and fails. It fails no matter how many octets are padded, or > which ones (excepting the last octet by itself). > > I've noticed this behavior on RHEL6 and OSX (10.8). > > Any thoughts? > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > >
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