On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 02:27:24PM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 14 lines which said:
>> Easiest way. > > $ ping 1089055123 > PING 1089055123 (64.233.169.147): 56 data bytes It relies on an undocumented feature (it is not in RFC 791, nor in getaddrinfo() manual) :-)