There’s more than one way to write an IP address

Re:There’s more than one way to write an IP address by HocusLocus on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @07:04PM (#20397652)

I did telephone tech support in an Austin boiler room for awhile and used the decimal IP notation I'd learned from my ISP days a lot. Sometimes accessing a customer's router home page is a must and there is no connectivity for name lookups. Elderly people have trouble with dots and numbers, or they add spaces, or any number of things.

Instead of directing them to 192.168.0.1 I'd tell them to enter 3232235521 and it would get the same place. My supervisor called me into the office because someone heard me doing it while snooping a call and it freaked them out.

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Re:There’s more than one way to write an IP address by jpeeler on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @08:10PM (#20398070)

One character shorter, so that's somewhat helpful. However, wouldn't requiring to type the http:// prefix still kill the simplification enough to make this not even bothering with? Otherwise, both Chrome and Firefox will do a google search for the decimal number.

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Re:There’s more than one way to write an IP address by inickt on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @01:22PM (#20404129)

You could just add a forward slash to the end of it instead of adding the protocol, i.e. 3232235521/

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