Version strings are not meant to be used for IP addresses.

In fact, I think they were... Not that you should ever actually use them.

use strict;
use warnings;
use Socket;

my $perlmonks1 = inet_aton("66.39.54.27");
my $perlmonks2 = v66.39.54.27;

print "Holy crap, this really works?\n" if $perlmonks1 eq $perlmonks2;
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And atually, yes, it does work for values higher than 127...

for my $IP (qw(66.39.54.27 209.197.123.153 208.159.114.4)) {
    my $perlmonks1 = inet_aton($IP);
    my $perlmonks2 = eval qq{ v$IP } or die $@;

    print "Holy crap, this really works ($IP)?\n" if $perlmonks1 eq $p
+erlmonks2;
}
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