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Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 11:19:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: Stephen Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
To: Theo Bell <freebsd@cfdnet.me.tuns.ca>
Cc: Alejandro Ramirez <ales@megared.net.mx>,
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Subject: Re: IP Address Convertion Formula???
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Oh I think easy is always proper! :)

On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Theo Bell wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> An easy way to convert the "1075040019" into 64.19.207.19 is to ping it.
> 
> bash-2.03$ ping 1075040019
> PING 1075040019 (64.19.207.19): 56 data bytes
> 
> ping converts it for you. 
> 
> I know this isn't the proper way of doing it, but it works. 
> 
> HTH
> 
> Theo
> 
> 
> On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Stephen Hovey wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I believe its the raw base 10 integer representation of the dot quad value
> > - but a Im not sure in which direction the significant bytes are ordered
> > (in other words, if you took the 4 numbers in the dot quad, and looked at
> > them as a long 4 byte integer, each value to its own byte, but In your
> > example, I dont know if you look at the integer as 19 207 19 64 - or 64 19
> > 207 19)
> > 
> > On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Alejandro Ramirez wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi All,
> > > 
> > >     I suppose that there is a formula to translate an address like
> > > "1075040019" into 64.19.207.19, does anybody know something about it that
> > > could explain to me???, or where can I see information about this.
> > > 
> > > Thanks in Advance
> > > Ales
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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