Re: [cobalt-users] IP addys

[Gordon <root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Greg wrote:

> Is IP Address 201.555.23.95  the same as 201.555.023.095?
> 

  The answer is ... it depends

  The leading zeros aren't really a problem, most client's will ignore
them, the problem is 555 is illegal (it's > 255), and exactly what happens
is highly dependent of which application you give the number to....

You may get an error, or any of

   201.43.23.95, 203.43.23.95 , 201.43.25.95, 201.255.23.95

 or some completly unpredictable value....

older versions of ms internet explorer will accept a single giant number
as an ip address it http://3426278346/
it treats it as a 32 bit number and uses it as a ip address....

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