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[-] dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info 2 points 2 years ago

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

[-] p1mrx@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years 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.

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