Pinging to 'crazy' IP address

Since 'his program' is Windows, it's more likely a routing misconfiguration somewhere at the office (especially with the 255.255 at the end, as that looks like a broadcast address).

Try pinging 192.21.255.255 and see if you get the same result. :)
 
Forgot about this one!

'kinda' got to the bottom of it, it was adding .co.uk at the end of the IP, and indeed there is a website at 192.759.255.255.co.uk (hosted by the Giraffe place I mentioned).

Didn't realise you could have '.'s in a URL, but there you go.

See, and you lot thought I was mad!
 
Of course you can have as many .'s as you want. The domain name itself is just 255.co.uk though (and it doesn't matter what you ping beyond that as it appears to be a wildcarded domain, so everything ends up at the same server regardless).

What a weird domain name though. Each to their own I guess. :)

Mystery solved. :cool:
 
Berserker said:
Of course you can have as many .'s as you want. The domain name itself is just 255.co.uk though (and it doesn't matter what you ping beyond that as it appears to be a wildcarded domain, so everything ends up at the same server regardless).

What a weird domain name though. Each to their own I guess. :)

Mystery solved. :cool:
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Cut the technical jargon with me matey! I want a public statement that my program was working and I'm not mad! :p
 
Oi! I'll have you know I spent several important seconds of my life crafting that reply. :p

ping <anything>.255.co.uk will work.

It's your crazy network setup adding the .co.uk that caused the problem, not your not so crazy program. :p
 
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