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Originally Posted by OICURMT
No wonder my computer doesn't work right... I've got too many numbers in my IP address... 
This author needs to research better...  |
This always amuses me. TV and movies all seem to use invalid IP addresses, no doubt for the same reason their phone numbers are always xxx-555-xxxx so no real person gets pestered. (When Telstra issued 555-xxxx numbers in Sydney they were very unpopular.)
There are numerous correct ways to express an IPv4 address. The only strict rules are that you can't have more than 3 dots, and any number with a dot on its right can not be bigger than 255.
You do not have to express the numbers in decimal. The can also be in octal or hexadecimal. You can mix decimal, octal and hex in the one address. These are all valid and all mean the same address - 123.45.67.89 (which happens to belong to Samsung if anyone cares).
0x7b.0x2d.0x43.0x59
123.055.0x43.89
123.45.17241
0x7b.0x2d.0x4359
123.055.0x4359
123.2966361
0x7b.0x2d4359
123.013241531
2066563929
0x7b2d4359
017313241531
Scammers like using the stranger variants to obfuscate their IP.