omshell: querying host info via ip address

[perl-list]

:-) Like I said: unless it is encoded somehow 

I don't believe I have ever seen a hex IP before. 

btw - that probably means that if he wants to look up by IP, that he will have to submit a hex IP for the query? 

----- Original Message -----

> From: "Simon Hobson" <dhcp1 at thehobsons.co.uk>
> To: "Users of ISC DHCP" <dhcp-users at lists.isc.org>
> Sent: Monday, March 5, 2012 9:22:58 AM
> Subject: Re: omshell: querying host info via ip address

> 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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