Re: Feature request: Accept decimal notation for target host

[Paul Eubanks <pauleubanks () gmail com>]

Yes, and Yes.  You're correct.  If it's too much of a PITA to implement,
blame Mikko since he brought it up.  :D

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Daniel Miller <bonsaiviking () gmail com>wrote:

> Even though I don't personally believe this is a good idea (very limited
> use, confusion, etc.), it would solve the oft-repeated question of how to
> scan sequential blocks of addresses that don't line up on round byte
> boundaries. For example,
>
> nmap 192.168.10.100-255 192.168.11.0-99
>
> could be written as
>
> nmap 3232238180-3232238435
>
> although I can't believe anyone would care enough to do it this way.
>
> Dan
>
> P.S. This was likely brought up in response to a tweet by @mikkohypponen
> about 5 hours ago:
> https://twitter.com/mikkohypponen/status/72663582327832578
>
> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Paul Eubanks <pauleubanks () gmail com>wrote:
>
> > Nmap accepts 4-tuple and Hex notation for targets, why not decimal?
> >
> > e.g.
> >
> > $ ping 127.0.0.1
> > $ ping 0x7f000001
> > $ ping 2130706433
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