Mastodawn

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!?

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Amo Bishop Rodent Apr 23, 2025

@ryanc

`ping 8.8.2056`

WTF how am just finding out about this today?

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Allen but one of the good ones Apr 23, 2025

@pikesley @ryanc what. How?!

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Amo Bishop Rodent Apr 23, 2025

@uastronomer @ryanc

I mean... 2056 is 8*256 + 8, the maths makes sense, but WTFFFFFF?

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Allen but one of the good ones Apr 23, 2025

@pikesley @ryanc Oh.... oh okay, I see!

WOW!

'cos a standard format IPv4 address is technically a 4 digit base256 number, so this is all just base conversions gone screwy 🤣🤣🤣

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Amo Bishop Rodent Apr 23, 2025

@uastronomer @ryanc yeah, it's completely cursed

`ping 134744072`

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Austin Dern, Dean of Coatis Apr 24, 2025

@pikesley @uastronomer @ryanc Way back in the 90s I made someone angry with me when I gave the URL for a web site as http://[long number here]/whatever.html. Those were fun times.

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