Admins give it to printers for permanent access.
At 3:45 AM, the installation completed. The firewalls rebooted in a synchronized high-availability dance. For two minutes, the network ran naked, unprotected. Elias held his breath. 10.0.12
Given the ambiguity, this article will address the : 10.0.12 as an IP address configuration (correcting the likely typo from 10.0.0.12 ), and secondarily as a software versioning scheme . Admins give it to printers for permanent access