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

[mouss]

At 13:19 23/04/01 -0700, Devin L. Ganger wrote:
>On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 03:27:37PM -0400, 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.
>
>Don't use the -n switch.  That tells ping to send 3510483697 packets to
>whatever host you specify, except that since you used the switch, you
>haven't specified a host.

are you serious? the '-n' says not to do a dns lookup.
or may be are you running some silly OS?

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