25 Sep
2021
25 Sep
'21
10:47 p.m.
On Saturday, September 25, 2021 21:55 Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net> wrote:
More than once, I've had to explain why zero-filling octets, like 127.000.000.001 (which still works) or 008.008.008.008 (which does not), is broken.
Zero filling IPv4 is just evil. How about this party trick?
% ping -c 1 010.010.010.010 PING 010.010.010.010 (8.8.8.8): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=0 ttl=116 time=27.496 ms
--- 010.010.010.010 ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 27.496/27.496/27.496/0.000 ms %