Subject: Re: Free Vacation when you Request the Info...
From: Daniel E. White (igor@clark.net)
Date: Sat Oct 09 1999 - 20:59:55 MDT
It is the equivalent unsigned long integer you get if you put the 4 unsigned short integers of an IP address into the same memory space.
I have used this trick to make an IP address a single thingie so that I can use it in a database and do simple arithmetic comparisons on it.
It goes like this:
#include <stdio.h>
int main ( int agrc, char *argv[] )
{
unsigned char *ipAddress ;
unsigned long number = 3626046468L ;
ipAddress = (unsigned char *)(&number) ;
/* we could then do this: */
printf ( "The IP Address is %u.%u.%u.%u\n", ipAddress[0], ipAddress[1], ipAddress[2], ipAddress[3] ) ;
exit ( 0 ) ;
}
And when I run it, it says:
The IP Address is 216.33.20.4
And nslookup says:
Name: bigip.angelfire.com
Address: 216.33.20.4
>That's a real address. it just doesn't look like one. :)
>
>Dennis Murphy wrote:
>> And the SPAMmer can't even get a proper IP address!
>> Sheesh. Spam that doesn't even offer a real address. What has the world
>> come to?
>> > On Sat, 9 Oct 1999 freevacationa@boom.com wrote:
>> > > http://3626046468/md2/freetraveling/index2.html
>> > > <a href="http://3626046468/md2/freetraveling/index2.html">Click
>> > > Here FOR FREE INFORMATION</a>
>
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