Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 10:59:32 +0700 From: Igor Podlesny <poige@morning.ru> To: "John Brooks" <john@day-light.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IP resolving to Octal Message-ID: <8546644020.20010618105932@morning.ru> In-Reply-To: <000501c0f79d$ff696fc0$0b00a8c0@dle> References: <000501c0f79d$ff696fc0$0b00a8c0@dle>
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I met such kind of difference trying use ping 0xIPIPIPIP. In FreeBSD it works at is should (imho), but Linux's networking doesn't give any respect to this notation form. I thnik it's its drawback, not BSD's... > 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 -- Igor mailto:poige@morning.ru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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