Shorewall users - Sep 2003 - Low Priority Question

Hello,

This is a low priority question, but I''m still curious.

In my blacklists file, I thought it would be a good idea to format all
of my banned IP''s by three digits, so it would be easier for me to
read.
So for instance, xx.xx.xx.255 would read 0xx.0xx.0xx.255.  However, when
I issued the ''shorewall restart'' command, it didn''t
like that format and
choked.  It looks as if it''s an iptables thing, based on the error
message.  Sorry, I lost the remote connection and closed the terminal,
or I''d include the error message here.

Does anyone know why the leading zeroes throw it off?  Is there a
work-around?  Again, just curious and this isn''t a huge deal.

Thanks,
-MikeD

On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 10:45, Mike Dillinger wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know why the leading zeroes throw it off?  Is there a
> work-around?  Again, just curious and this isn''t a huge deal.
> 
The C/Unix convention for numbers is that any number beginning with
"0"
is assumed to be expressed in octal (base 8).

-Tom
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