On 12/27/07, Ivan Solonin <iss@e-sky.ru> wrote:
> # ping 192.168.025.11
> PING 192.168.025.11 (192.168.21.11): 56 data bytes
> --- 192.168.025.11 ping statistics ---
> 11 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss
> #
>
> I think, that 025 interpreted as octal number, but not decimal like
> other octets of address.
>
> It is correct behaviour or bug?

Well, that behaviour is based on inet_aton(). If you read
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=inet_aton closely you see
""""All numbers supplied as ``parts'' in a dot notation may be decimal, oc-
tal, or hexadecimal, as specified in the C language (i.e., a leading 0x
or 0X implies hexadecimal; a leading 0 implies octal; otherwise, the num-
ber is interpreted as decimal)."""

Which is surprising if you don't have C in your bones so that you
expect C-ish behaviour everywhere. To people who do know C that well,
though, to do anything *but* interpret IP addresses like this would be
surprising.

-Nick