Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 21:25:39 -0500 From: "John Brooks" <john@day-light.com> To: <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: IP resolving to Octal Message-ID: <000501c0f79d$ff696fc0$0b00a8c0@dle>
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I assisted a friend to setup a new FreeBSD4.3 box (the first in his network). Network has 50+ linux boxes resolving from hosts files in this format (don't ask me why, it's his format): 010.000.010.012 charity.cs.domain.edu 010.000.010.013 patience.cs.domain.edu 010.000.010.014 virtue.cs.domain.edu ... On linux this apparently worked, on BSD it gets converted to octal and returned in dotted decimal. "charity" resolved to an IP of 8.0.8.10 instead of 10.0.10.12. Anyway, we worked through all issues first and then set up DNS which is working properly - he now thinks BSD is "way cool". My question is why would BSD and Linux interpret the same hosts file in such a different manner? Which should be considered the correct behavior? -- John Brooks To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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