Re: Ping - error?

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Meelis Roos (mroos@tartu.cyber.ee)
Fri, 12 Jun 1998 12:27:50 +0300

BS> rlis6:/root # ping 192.168.33.036
BS> PING 192.168.33.036 (192.168.33.30): 56 data bytes

It seems to be a feature of inet_aton which seems to interpret
the octet as octal when it is preceded by 0.

traceroute, telnet etc all use the same function and
seem to have the same feature.

-- Meelis Roos (mroos@tartu.cyber.ee)

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