Re: Feature request: Accept decimal notation for target host

["DePriest, Jason R." <jrdepriest () gmail com>]

11.1.1.1 is 184615169 in decimal notation
1.11.1.1 is 185270529 in decimal notation

What Paul calls 4-tuple is commonly called dotted-decimal (or just
dot-decimal).  What he calls decimal is commonly called just that:
decimal notation, just not dotted-decimal notation.

Spammers like to use the decimal notation because it makes it
difficult for a user to look up the IP manually on a black list even
though most utilities understand it just fine.

This old site explains it pretty well: http://www.pc-help.org/obscure.htm

-Jason

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Nils Magnus <magnus () linuxtag org> wrote:
> Am Montag, 23. Mai 2011 19:48:49 schrieb Paul Eubanks:
> > Nmap accepts 4-tuple and Hex notation for targets, why not decimal?
> >
> > e.g.
> >
> > $ ping 127.0.0.1
> > $ ping 0x7f000001
> > $ ping 2130706433
>
> Because it's ambigous? How do you distinct between 11.1.1.1 and 1.11.1.1, for
> example?
>
> Regards,
>
> Nils Magnus
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