No need to ping if all you want is the conversion :)

Just type it into the address bar: https://snipboard.io/kbLTso.jpg (previously posted that screenshot in 2021 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29050936)

The address bar is also a bit excessive for doing conversions.

  $ getent hosts 127.1
  127.0.0.1       127.1

I would agree that a whole browser engine is overkill for any simple conversion of four simple bytes

...but you realize we're conversing via a website, right? :D Most people will already be in a browser!

And the ping utility.

How about 134744072, that hits my favorite am-I-connected site. I never knew you could put an int representing the 4 bytes together until today, this is really fun.

Even hex works, but doesn't hit a site that responds: (ping 0xcafebeef).

I enjoy using "ping 0x1010101"