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:

74.210.75.36
194.207.179.38
219.56.57.35
226.20.78.185
13.169.64.200
119.181.115.62
7.216.88.196
63.46.181.221
90.148.110.32
39.179.40.30


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