[Full-Disclosure] OT microsoft "feature"

[Bradford Shedwick]

Wierd.
 
It does the same thing on Windows 2K as well.  When you put a zero in front of the field, it somehow changes the octet to whatever number you have in the second position times eight.
 
IE. 020  becomes 16;  090 becomes 72.
 
Not sure why it does it.


Davide Del Vecchio <dante at alighieri.org> wrote:Hi list, 

I`m sorry for the OT,
Anyone has a good explaination for this ? 

Windows XP Professional SP1 

C:\>ping 10.10.10.10 

Esecuzione di Ping 10.10.10.10 con 32 byte di dati: 

Control-C
^C
C:\>ping 010.10.10.10 

Esecuzione di Ping 010.10.10.10 [8.10.10.10] con 32 byte di dati: 

Control-C
^C
C:\>ping 010.010.10.10 

Esecuzione di Ping 010.010.10.10 [8.8.10.10] con 32 byte di dati: 

Control-C
^C
C:\>ping 010.010.010.10 

Esecuzione di Ping 010.010.010.10 [8.8.8.10] con 32 byte di dati: 

Control-C
^C
C:\>ping 010.010.010.010 

Esecuzione di Ping 010.010.010.010 [8.8.8.8] con 32 byte di dati: 

Control-C
^C
C:\> 

Obviously if you try the same thing on a *NIX or IOS the "0" is
just ignored.
It seems like the 0 character implies a modification in the IP field..
It`s not a bug of the "ping" command, because it "works" on telnet, ftp... 

d. 

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