All I could say about pinging the IP is that your parser is just not able to convert the representation into an unsigned 32 bit integer. But it doesn't mean that no other parser is capable of this. Enough to say that dotted notation is a convention. Network addresses are just numbers in their nature.
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All I could say about pinging the IP is that your parser is just not able to convert the representation into an unsigned 32 bit integer. But it doesn't mean that no other parser is capable of this. Enough to say that dotted notation is a convention. Network addresses are just numbers in their nature.