"that's a curious choice, to represent IPs as a long; why would you do that."
"oh, it's a standard PHP function? ok, sure, gives you a unique representation for IP suitable for indexing arrays or whatever, but why a long and not the hex translation"
"oh no it's from C"
"oh no it's from AIX"
https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ip2long.php
then following the link there to http://ps-2.kev009.com/wisclibrary/aix52/usr/share/man/info/en_US/a_doc_lib/libs/commtrf2/inet_addr.htm
and then...yeah.
it's a 32-bit value
that errors on quad-255
because that overflows the long.
y'all.
FFFFFFFF is 8 hexits.
PHP -has- a hex int type.
c'mon.
-so much legacy- in this shit
no wonder that place was Like That; this is the equivalent of lead plumbing lol
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