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This Phishing email... What is the IP? (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 42 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 14 points 5 months 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.

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