Not sure why but I can't replicate either using the DWORD in a browser or
trying a ping:
Here's the output:
C:\>ping -n 3510483697
IP address must be specified.
David Ishmael
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At 13:34 23/04/01 -0400, Cranmer, James-DLI wrote:
>That is not an IP address, it is actually just a DNS entry.
no, it is an IP address.
just do: ping -n 3510483697
and you'll see that it work, and -n says no dns lookup.
an IP address is a 32 bits integer that can be represented in one
of the forms:
a = a
a.b = 256^3 a + b
a.b.c = 256^3 a + 256^2 b + c
a.b.c.d = 256^3 a + 256^2 b + 256 c + d
a common example is doing "ping 127.1" instead of typing the long
"127.0.0.1"
or same with 10.1 and so on.
refer to the source code of inet_aton() if you don't feel lazy...
cheers,
mouss
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