Joe Geiser <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>Under normal circumstances, leading zeros indicates "octal" - but not with
>NMMGR.  Note that this applies only to NMMGR -- the other internet services
>such as inetd config files - this does not apply.
>


I believe ping is also "smart" enough to strip off the leading zero instead
of treating the octet as octal. This makes for some interesting results
trying to troubleshot why the spooler reports that it can't communicate with
the network printer, yet by cutting and pasting an address from NPCONFIG
into ping it works fine.

Put another way:
PING: 192.1.1.1 = 192.1.1.001
NPCONFIG/telnet/your tool of choice: 192.1.1.1 <> 192.1.1.001

I suppose this really should be considered a bug in ping.

Doug.

Doug Werth                                     Beechglen Development Inc.
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