RE: [OT] Who can explain this address scheme?

[Alan Olsen]

On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, David Ishmael wrote:

> 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.

In Linux, it gives me the correct IP address.

Unfortunatly, trying to feed that number into most hex calculators does
not work due to the resulting number being too large. (At least the ones I
have tried.)

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