Two stupid ip questions;

[Christopher J. Morrone]

On Mon, 31 May 1999, Simon Hogg wrote:

> Just two quick questions for now - I only have accesss to email at the
> moment (well for a couple of days, so ...)
> 
> 1)  what are the reserved ip numbers for the network 'internal' to the
> beowulf?  (I *thought* it was 192.x.x.x but I just want to check?

The 192 one is 192.168.0.0, and is the most common.  Other posibilities
are 10.0.0.0 and 172.16.0.0.

> 2)  what's with these ip addresses with no dots?  Is this in an rfc or
> something? (or is it straight decimal to hex conversion?)  e.g.
> http://3626046468/ maps to www.angelfire.com (216.33.20.4)

Looks like it is the decimal representation of the address, but I'm just
guessing...