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This Phishing email... What is the IP? (europe.pub)

submitted 2 weeks ago by RonSijm@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] Turious@leaf.dance 42 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

IP addresses can't have segment numbers going over 255.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, IPv4 addresses use four bytes. Those four bytes are represented as four decimal numbers, separated by dots. And a byte can only represent the decimal values 0–255.

[–] mergingapples@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ahhhh. Thank you. Now the Ipv over 4 jokes make sense.