On 29/12/2009, at 7:37 PM, Brad Tilley wrote: > There may be good reason for not doing this, I don't know. It's just an oddity I came across and thought I would mention it.
I don't have my OpenBSD machine online atm, but ... an IPv4 address can be legitimately presented as a 32-bit integer. I would guess this might be why ping is behaving this way. eg, on darwin (which i do have at hand), ping 167772161 will successfully ping 10.0.0.1 d
