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Re: [LUG] whois microsoft.com

 

On Tue, 13 Aug 2013, Daniel Case wrote:
Relevent to this thread I think, something a lot of people don't know - you can represent an IP address with a base-10 number, so pinging 2130706433 pings 127.0.0.1

You can also leave out zeros in an IP address: ping 127.1 will give you localhost as well.

Martijn.


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