[ale] Ok, this is wierd...

[John Wells]

Playing a little bit more, it seems ping will allow decimal, octal, hex,
or a combo of each.

I can emulate your ping by doing a combo of decimal and hex:

ping 192.168.2.0x10

Ping understands.  Pretty cool.  Seems other ip tools, like dig, don't
necessarily handle this the same way, so it looks like it's a ping thing.

John

John Wells said:
> Remember that 020 is an octet...i.e. an octal number.
>
> Since you have a leading zero, it's simply converting 020 to the decimal
> value (16) and pinging that address.  That host seems to be up, while
> the host at 20 seems to be down.
>
> 020 octal = 16 decimal
>
> Note that in the replies, it's indicating 192.168.2.16 as the replying
> host.
>
> John



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