Make a random IP address in Perl

This Perl script makes reasonably convincing random IPv4 internet addresses.

#!/home/ben/software/install/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
sub randomip
{
    my @digits;
    for (0..3) {
        push @digits, int (rand (255) + 1);
    }
    return join '.', @digits;
}
for (0..9) {
    print randomip (), "\n";
}

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The output looks like this:

110.18.75.25
66.186.69.146
33.221.81.19
214.157.179.248
166.174.6.66
215.93.143.228
42.254.113.10
235.244.220.242
152.224.41.79
44.58.181.175


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