For those who want to try it at home:
ping 33333333
ping 55555555
I am sorry, two random Internet users in Korea and Germany, your IP addresses are simply special.
Superior Ping:
ping 1.1also works. It resolves to 1.0.0.1, which is Cloudflare’s secondary DNSOh shit. Didn’t know this either. Kind of like ipv6 in a way
Wow, thank you!
For those who are still confused, ping works with 32 bit unsigned integers. While there certainly are more uses, it’s a much more convenient method for storing IP address in a database as it’s easier to sort and index than 4 numbers separated by 4 periods
http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/IP2Integer.jsp?ipAddress=1.1.1.1
Also two random internet users in Korea and Germany, your IP addresses are blocked by mail server since I started getting phishing emails from your country.
ping 9.9.9.9It’s 1111 higher.
Obligatory: Fuck Drake.
There are dozens of meme templates like this that you could have used instead
There are things you could have done besides act self righteous on the internet, and yet here you are
It takes 0 effort to not support a creep
Ah you see the mistake you’ve made is thinking that somehow posting a picture of someone supports them. This is because you spend too much time looking at screens
Jesus. If you see a kid with a balloon, do you have a burning need to tell them that there was probably exploitation involved in the harvesting of the rubber?
Epic false equivalence.
Imagine defending Drake, disgusting.
imagine caring about a meme template
Where was the defence of Drake? If anything they acknowledged it
Ping ::1
ping 2130706433 for best results
Okay, I’m learning networking but have no idea what this means
It’s simple. Picture a series of tubes…
interesting . . In my head, I think of ip addresses like just decimal values or integers separated by periods, but clearly a decimal value isn’t processed as such by a computer. To think that IP addresses are simply strings is pretty interesting to my amateur mind, because for all my life I thought of them as technical computer jargon that isn’t the same as what I used to think strings were: words!
I don’t want to go so far as to tell you how to think, but as long as we are talking about how to visualize IP addresses, you may want to check out subnets and subnet masking.
The notation of IP addresses starts to make sense when you think about the early days of TCP/IP when all IP addresses were public and NAT’ing wasn’t really required yet. Basically, there needed to be ways for networks to filter traffic by IP blocks that were applicable. (It was [in part] a precursor to collision avoidance, but absolutely not the full story.) We still use addressing and masking today, but it’s more obvious when it’s local. (Like in data centers, where it’s super practical to mask off a block of addresses for a row or rack of servers.)
To your point, yeah. IP addresses are probably more comparable to the Dewey Decimal System rather than actual numbers and thinking of them as strings is probably easier.
Oh no worries, I am writing a Cisco networking exam in about a month, so I’ve actually studied subnets and addressing a good amount, but I don’t mind the refresher!
I was just speaking more generally, in terms of programming, where integers and strings are different data types, yet you can store numbers as a string, which I always found interesting.
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