Re: [tlug] Problems with au ADSL/network setup

[David J Iannucci <jlinux@example.com>]

> Me: "Well, you see, there's some weirdness in the way that Unix
> interprets numbers and when you put leading zeroes into addresses
> (e.g. 010.010.100.101) it interprets those parts with leading zeros as
> octal and the numbers aren't what you think they are."

That sounds like broken software to me. I've never seen an IP
address in such a format ("dotted octal"?), and I've been around the
UNIX and TCP/IP world a rather long time (though it sounds like not
as long as you :=).

When written in the dotted notation, it's always supposed to be
decimal, no?

Dave