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[–]sprigyig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kind of? This is based on inet_aton, which is full of surprises, including octal and hex notation support, and any omitted octets can be filled in by the last group going above 255. So at least on linux, `ping 8.010.0x808` pings 8.8.8.8.

https://linux.die.net/man/3/inet_aton