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by Bluecobra 1423 days ago
Once cool trick that most people don't know is that you can also ping IP addresses in octal, hex, and integer!

https://ma.ttias.be/silly-little-ip-tricks/

  >ping 0x08080808
  
  Pinging 8.8.8.8 with 32 bytes of data:
  Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=58
  Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=58
  Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=58
  Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=58