Ryan Castellucci (they/them) Apr 23, 2025
Coworker: ...and the IP address are compared with a string match.
Me: grinning manically
Coworker: Why are you looking at me like that?
Me: Open up a terminal and type ping 4.2.514 and hit enter.
Coworker: ...what's the fourth number?
Me: grin widens Just hit enter.
Coworker: WTF!?
ret2bed is hacking web apps Apr 23, 2025
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@ryanc That never occurred to me to try, and yet here we are:

jay@marvin:~$ ping 4.131586
PING 4.131586 (4.2.2.2) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 4.2.2.2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=17.8 ms

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