Knowing how an IP address identifies a host on a network can be confusing. Before you begin calculating various addresses, you should know the fundamentals of IP addressing. Todd Lammle describes this ...

I got sick of spending time converting IP addresses to various formats. ipconv.pl is a quickie CGI shortcut to convert a dotted-quad IP address to decimal, hex, octal and binary.

The format of an IP address in the traditional 32-bit version of the IP protocol. For the foreseeable future, IPv4 will co-exist with the newer IPv6 version (see IPv6). IPv4 uses a "dotted decimal" ...

The commonly used "net" library in Go and Rust languages is also impacted by the mixed-format IP address validation vulnerability. The bug has to do with how net treats IP addresses as decimal, even ...