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How does this work?

[jhugo → worldmerge]

IPv4 addresses are 32-bit numbers, the dotted-decimal representation is just a common way to represent those numbers.

[throwaway787544 → jhugo]

In particular inet_aton() function considers a single integer to be the 32bit form. Accepts decimal, octal, and hex. https://linux.die.net/man/3/inet_aton