On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 09:59:45AM +0000, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Marc Haber wrote:
>> |$ ping 127.1
>> |PING 127.1 (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
> My goodness! I never knew that, and it seems to work on at least Linux,
> FreeBSD and Solaris. Experiments show that
> 127.1 -> 127.0.0.1
> 127.1.1 -> 127.1.0.1
> Is this documented anywhere?
It dates back from the very early days. It's not generally very nice in
IPv4, and people who use 192.168.0/24 are fine, but people who use, say
192.168.2/24 might get somewhat confused. (expands to 192.168.0.2/24,
which is, of course, 192.168.0.0/24).
My personal feeling is not to allow it, as it can confuse, and produce
hard-to-spot bugs if you mistype something.
But that's me.
Cheers
MBM
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