Can anyone explain why when I ping 192.168.23.019 it gives me a reply from 192.168.23.17?
Then If I ping .23.19 I get a request timed out reply. But I can RDP onto .23.19 These are virtual machines.. Does that make a difference?
Can anyone explain why when I ping 192.168.23.019 it gives me a reply from 192.168.23.17?
Then If I ping .23.19 I get a request timed out reply. But I can RDP onto .23.19 These are virtual machines.. Does that make a difference?
As poige hints, 019 is a messed up octal way to say 17. 010 = 8, add 9 to that you get 17.
So when you ping .019, you accidentally ping .17
ping
won't even ping such host with error diag: unknown host 192.168.23.019
. That's why I asked you bout OS you've noticed this on.
ping 192.168.23.019
is incorrect, I suspect, since 0nn means octal number and 9 isn't octal allowed.
Most probably .23.19 doesn't respond to ping, so it just drops the packets, that would explain the timeout and why you can RDP to it.