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:

102.147.188.226
147.9.127.244
176.149.58.34
39.177.79.153
195.49.105.187
85.201.201.245
153.137.96.200
18.112.93.48
166.34.104.32
43.233.251.80


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