8 May
2022
8 May
'22
4:28 p.m.
Hi Bakul,
On FreeBSD:
ping 10.2 tries to ping 10.0.0.2 and
ping 192.168.300 tries to ping 192.168.1.44 (1*2^8+44 == 300)
ping 10.2.300 tries to ping 10.2.1.44
ping 192.1000000 tries to ping 192.15.66.64 (15*2^15+66*2^8+64 == 1000000)
ping 1000000001 tries to ping 59.154.202.1 (59*2^24+154*2^16+202*2^8+1)
Ditto here on Linux with GNU libc.
ping 300.300 tries to ping 23.217.138.110 (I
haven't worked this out! Prob. a bug)
It doesn't parse as a numeric address. Given it's a.bcd, based on the
notation in my other email, the first 300 is ‘a’ but is bigger than one
byte so is invalid. Yes, a bug.
$ ping 300.300
ping: 300.300: Name or service not known
$
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Cheers, Ralph.