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Re: interger to I P address

  • From: Stephane Bortzmeyer
  • Date: Wed Aug 27 09:09:05 2008 
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 02:27:24PM +0200,
 Iljitsch van Beijnum <[email protected]> wrote 
 a message of 14 lines which said:

>> Easiest way.
>
> $ ping 1089055123
> PING 1089055123 (64.233.169.147): 56 data bytes

It relies on an undocumented feature (it is not in RFC 791, nor in
getaddrinfo() manual) :-)