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Re: interger to I P address


From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer () nic fr>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:08:56 +0200

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 02:27:24PM +0200,
 Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch () muada com> 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) :-)


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