For those who want to try it at home:

ping 33333333
ping 55555555

I am sorry, two random Internet users in Korea and Germany, your IP addresses are simply special.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    This is a special case. This resolves to 0.0.0.0, and technically cannot be routed. Some(!) systems use it as a kind of alias for all local network addresses, but it is not a given.

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      I’m aware. Conveniently this works on all the systems I’ve tried, making it useful for testing local services (e.g. ssh 0).