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		audidude on Oct 7, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Storing IP addresses as integers ip addresses are always stored in network-byte-order

tptacek on Oct 7, 2009 [–]

Your ALU doesn't care what the RFC says. What's the point of storing addresses in binary if you can't do math on them? There is no point, is the point.

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