Brian Fernandes just sent this one in and I’m stumped… navigate to this address:
Why does that work you ask? I have no idea, but this guy does…
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September 9th, 2007 at 6:47 am
If you’ve worked with sockets directly (in C/++ perhaps) you might remember the “atoi” (ascii to integer) method which converts your IP address into an integer, which is then passed into the socket structs as the “destination address”. So that number is actually one of Google’s IPv4 addresses converted into the 32 bit integer it actually represents – and our browsers are smart enough to take an address in that form as well.
I should have thought of this earlier, but years of Java coding has left me spoiled