--- Gerald Combs [email protected] wrote:
What happens when you run
ping 0x7f.1and why?
Same thing that happens if you ping 127.1 or 127.0.0.1 or 12.1 or 0xc.1 or 0x7c.0xf1 or ...
ping translates it as x.0.0.y and runs the query.
I would say that this is a bug in ping, that it would allow x.y to be evaluated as a complete ip address. But what is going on is that ping is calculating the address based on the first and last dot numbers and fills in the blanks with zeros. if you want the RFC explanation for it, I'd have to look it up. I don'ty keep that kind of trivia in my head, hell I have a hard enough time keeping in the important stuff. ;')
Brian D.
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