http://3505021947 - how does this resolve?

[Joseph S D Yao]

> Interesting thought on the non-dotted IP format.  But even if say a host
> is able to resolve non-dotted IPs, wouldn't it have to convert them to
> normal dotted format first before resolving them?  And a filter set in
> either format would still be able to do the job, wouldn't it?

If it's doing a text string compare, the two don't look at all alike.

The internal representation IS the 32-bit number.  The decimal and
hexadecimal representations, the dotted-quad representation, and the
hostname representation are all just that - representations.

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