http://3505021947 - how does this resolve?

[Yiorgos Adamopoulos]

On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 10:59:00AM +0100, Dan Winchester wrote:
> How do they resolve? What organisation allocates them? Are they in any
> way derived from the IP address?

This is a perfectly valid IP address (in the sense that the BSD APIs translate
it).

george at hawk: [61] ~ > ping 3505021947
PING 3505021947 (208.234.99.251): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 208.234.99.251: icmp_seq=0 ttl=118 time=263.079 ms
:
[snip]

251 + 99 * 256 + 234 * 256 * 256 + 208 * 256 * 256 * 256 = 3505021947

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