omshell: querying host info via ip address

Simon Hobson dhcp1 at thehobsons.co.uk
Mon Mar 5 14:22:58 UTC 2012


perl-list wrote:

>>ip-address = ac:10:01:63

>Perhaps I am not familiar enough with omshell, but this doesn't look 
>like 172.16.1.99 unless it is encoded somehow.

<mutters about the state of computer education these days>
Do you not recognise Hex ?

ac in hex = 172 in decimal
10 in hex = 16 in decimal
01 in hex - 1 in decimal
63 in hex = 99 in decimal


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