Fun with IP address parsing

#1

Post by mr_tyzik » Sat, Dec 26, 2020, 7:56 PM UTC

Fun with IP address parsing
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Re: Fun with IP address parsing

#2

Post by AnthonyMouse » Sat, Dec 26, 2020, 8:17 PM UTC

> 1:2:3:4:5:6:77.77.88.88 means 1:2:3:4:5:6:7777:8888

Wait, what? 77.77.88.88 is in dotted decimal. It doesn't correspond to 7777:8888 in hex.

edit: Somebody else already noticed on Twitter:

> And as @alanjmcf noticed, I messed up one of the representations above.

> 1:2:3:4:5:6:77.77.88.88 means 1:2:3:4:5:6:4d4d:5858, not 1:2:3:4:5:6:7777:8888. I missed out a decimal-to-hex conversion in there.

Re: Fun with IP address parsing

#3

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Dec 26, 2020, 8:26 PM UTC

AnthonyMouse wrote: post #2

> 1:2:3:4:5:6:77.77.88.88 means 1:2:3:4:5:6:7777:8888 Wait, what? 77.77.88.88 is in dotted decimal. It doesn't correspond to 7777:8888 in hex. edit: Somebody else already noticed on Twitter: > And as @alanjmcf noticed, I messed up one of the representations above. > 1:2:3:4:5:6:77.77.88.88 means 1:2:3:4:5:6:4d4d:5858, not 1:2:3:4:5:6:7777:8888. I missed out a decimal-to-hex conversion in there.