* literals -- there is no blocking DNS penalty for a malformed string.
 *
 * <p>When dealing with {@link Inet4Address} and {@link Inet6Address} objects as byte arrays (vis.
 * {@code InetAddress.getAddress()}) they are 4 and 16 bytes in length, respectively, and represent
 * the address in network byte order.
 *
 * <p>Examples of IP addresses and their byte representations:
 *
 * <dl>