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integer form of addresses uses wrong endianness #4

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no-lex opened this issue Feb 1, 2021 · 0 comments
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integer form of addresses uses wrong endianness #4

no-lex opened this issue Feb 1, 2021 · 0 comments
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no-lex commented Feb 1, 2021

For example, when querying the the host of 127.0.0.1 the result is 16777343, or 1x2^24 + 127x2^0. This value corresponds to the IP of 1.0.0.127. This is caused because network endianness is big-endian while x86 and other common architectures are little-endian.
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