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:

79.174.164.167
76.97.49.83
85.226.27.38
244.177.241.106
181.10.131.53
217.230.24.229
221.49.134.29
48.34.233.210
145.219.102.163
253.67.166.255


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