On Mar 3, 2013, at 12:47 PM, Benjamin Lees <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Joseph Spenner <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hello, I'm curious why pages containing IP addresses in their content don't 
>> turn up on searches for those IP addresses.
> 
> They do.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=default&search=127.0.0.1&fulltext=Search
> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=13.0.0.0&fulltext=Search
>   
> 

Perhaps THE Wikipedia does, but try it on your own installation.
Anyone else seen this behavior?

Here are some posts about it:
   http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg07771.html
    
http://www.mwusers.com/forums/showthread.php?6672-Searching-IP-addresses-in-Wiki-text

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