For those who want to try it at home:

ping 33333333
ping 55555555

I am sorry, two random Internet users in Korea and Germany, your IP addresses are simply special.

  • SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1·
    25 days ago

    I’m probably going to get downvoted to hell but I have to ask: Can someone please explain? I’m perpetually trying to expand my knowledge on the technical side of Linux.

  • underscores@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    26 days ago

    Obligatory: Fuck Drake.

    There are dozens of meme templates like this that you could have used instead

    • stoicmaverick@lemmy.world
      1·
      26 days ago

      Jesus. If you see a kid with a balloon, do you have a burning need to tell them that there was probably exploitation involved in the harvesting of the rubber?

      • yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca
        1·
        26 days ago

        interesting . . In my head, I think of ip addresses like just decimal values or integers separated by periods, but clearly a decimal value isn’t processed as such by a computer. To think that IP addresses are simply strings is pretty interesting to my amateur mind, because for all my life I thought of them as technical computer jargon that isn’t the same as what I used to think strings were: words!

    • Treczoks@lemmy.world
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      25 days ago

      I fondly remember regularly logging into simtel20.wsmr.army.mil back in the days (WSMR=White Sands Missile Range). No issue, just used “anonymous” as the username, and your email address as the password. And even the email address was just a convenience…

      • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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        25 days ago

        IPv4 has some other features too.

        $ ping 0x8.02004010
PING 0x8.02004010 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=116 time=22.8 ms

        That’ll be Google’s root DNS server, using hexadecimal and octal representations.