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.
ping g.co to test ipv6
this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2025
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ping 1.1 also works. It resolves to 1.0.0.1, which is Cloudflare's secondary DNS
It sure is better then ping 194.204.152.34 which I used to use.
Prior to cloud flare and Google doing DNS, a common one was 4.2.2.2 which is a level 3 IP.
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Wow, thank you!
Oh shit. Didn't know this either. Kind of like ipv6 in a way
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.
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For those who are still confused, ping works with 32 bit unsigned integers. While there certainly are more uses, it's a much more convenient method for storing IP address in a database as it's easier to sort and index than 4 numbers separated by 4 periods
http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/IP2Integer.jsp?ipAddress=1.1.1.1
it's so simple!
ping -c 4 $(mysql -u frodo -p keepyoursecrets -D /home/pingtargets.db -se "SELECT ip FROM servers ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1;")
I prefer:
ping 133742069
(probably lands you on a list tho...it's a US DoD IP)
~~[https://iplocation.io/ip-whois-lookup/133.74.20.69](Looks like the Japanese Aerospace Agency) unless ~~I'm completely misunderstanding how entering a string of numbers without periods works in a ping
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55555555
All addresses that that start in 555 were left open by the internet protocol developers just for movies and TV shows.
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Or, if you're me,
$ ping 16843009
PING 16843009 (1.1.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=53 time=4.06 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=53 time=4.04 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=53 time=4.05 ms ^C
***
16843009 ping statistics
***
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2003ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 4.044/4.053/4.062/0.007 ms
ping 2130706433 for best results
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Okay, I'm learning networking but have no idea what this means
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!
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