• Danny M
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    21 year ago

    I don’t know why anyone would write their IPs in octal, but fair point

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      It’s not about how people write them, it’s how parsers parse them. IPv4 has been around since 1982, and most parsers interpret leading zeros as octal.