What do the numbers in your Ip address stand for?

Answer 1

The numbers in your IP address stand for many things. External IP's start off by state IP ID, County IP ID, CITY, IP ID, Client IP ID...

123 - Maryland 45 - Washington Co. 135 - Hagerstown 215 PeoplePC Customer 35817

123.45.135.215

Or at least that's how it was explained to me.


Internal IP's are basically address to equipment. Your Primary or master device is 192.168.xx.1

The mfgr's specific number goes in the xx slot.

Belkin 192.168.2.1, Linksys. 192.168.1.1, Netgear, 192.168.0.1

Now each machine or device as it's turned on gets an IP Address using this format, 192.168.0.20 and then the next one would be 192.168.0.36 and so on. The number sequence tells data nd pc's how and where to send their resources or how to manipulate it.

Answer 2

The numbers don't stand for anything specific, they just have to be unique -- they are the way in which computers on the internet are addressed.

For IPv4, each of the four parts of the address is a number between 0 and 255. Some IP addresses are reserved for specific uses, like private/internal networks.

Answer 3

an IP address (Internet Protocol address) is a unique identifier that distinguishes one device from any other on a TCP/IP-based computer network, such as the Internet. The IP address provides enough information to route data to that specific computer from any other computer on the network. In the case of the Internet, this enables you to communicate with web servers, instant messaging servers and other computers all over the world.

IP addresses are usually not entered directly by end users. Instead, DNS servers are used to map permanent and user-friendly names like boutell.com to unfriendly and impermanent IP addresses, such as 64.246.52.10.

An IP address is made up of four numbers, each between 0 and 255. For instance, as of this writing, the IP address of boutell.com is:

64.246.52.10

The most general information is conveyed by the first number, and the specific identification of a single computer within a single network is usually made by the last number. In general, delegation of responsibility for various portions of the IP address space is carried out by the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC), the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), the Latin-American And Caribbean Internet Addresses Registry (LACNIC), and the RIPE Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC).

The above description applies to IPv4, the most commonly used version of the IP protocol that underlies the Internet and similar networks. A newer system, IPV6, addresses the fact that the number of IPv4 addresses is limited to approximately four billion (256 to the fourth power), with the practical maximum considerably lower than that due to the ways in which addresses are assigned. When much of the Earth's population begins to use the Internet from a variety of devices, this limitation becomes a serious problem. IPv6 addresses have a vastly greater range, inexhaustible for all practical purposes.

You will not always have the same IP address, unless you have specifically arranged for a fixed IP address, typically from a cable modem, DSL or other high-speed provider. Therefore, your IP address usually does not uniquely identify you as an individual. When you dial into your Internet service provider with your modem, an IP address is temporarily assigned to your computer for the duration of the call. Even web servers such as boutell.com will typically change their IP address when they move from one hosting facility to another; DNS servers make this transparent for the end user by automatically translating domain names to IP addresses. With the exception of the "root" DNS servers, which are used to resolve the IP addresses of all other DNS servers, all IP addresses are subject to potential change.

Those who use the Internet at work, or who have a connection-sharing router at home, do not truly have an Internet IP address for their individual computer. Instead, the connection-sharing router holds the Internet IP address, carries out the requests made by the various personal computers "behind" the router, and appears to the rest of the Internet to be a single, very busy computer. The personal computers "behind" the router have IP addresses on an intranet. Such IP addresses typically resemble 192.168.2.2 or 10.1.1.7, because the prefixes 192.168. and 10. are universally reserved for such private networks and are guaranteed never to be assigned to systems on the Internet.

This lack of a true Internet IP address for each personal computer can be a very good thing, because it prevents incoming connections to individual PCs, providing some protection from certain types of attacks. Unfortunately, there are many other ways for computers to become infected by viruses, spyware and similar software. For more information, see can my computer catch a virus from a web page? and why is my web browser broken?

Such setups can also have a downside: if you wish to run a server on one of the computers behind the connection-sharing router, you must explicitly configure your router to forward connections on certain ports to that particular computer.

Answer 4

It's just an address...like what does your zip code stand for, and your street address, and your phone number? They're just assigned to keep track of computers, not based on location or business type or anything.

Answer 5

http://www.data4.us