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[–] dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] p1mrx@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months 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.