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Re:The result of pinging all the Internet IP addresses by jevinskie on Thursday February 07, 2013 @09:03PM (#5185860)
You can use a LFSR[0] to efficiently (it is deterministic, minimal state) convert a sequential power of two range [0, 2^n-1] into one that appears to "randomly" walk around.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_feedback_shift_register

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Re:The result of pinging all the Internet IP addresses by tonyedgecombe on Friday February 08, 2013 @03:16AM (#5186851)
Or just reverse the bits in the address.
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Re:The result of pinging all the Internet IP addresses by mrab on Thursday February 07, 2013 @10:15PM (#5186096)
Yeah, I could think of a handful of ways to do this easily without as much resources as stated...
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