11 Facts About Internet address

An Internet Protocol address is a numerical label such as that is connected to a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication.

An IP address serves two main functions: network interface identification and location addressing.

IP address space is managed globally by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, and by five regional Internet registries responsible in their designated territories for assignment to local Internet registries, such as Internet service providers, and other end users.

An IP Internet address serves two principal functions: it identifies the host, or more specifically its network interface, and it provides the location of the host in the network, and thus the capability of establishing a path to that host.

The class system of the Internet address space was replaced with Classless Inter-Domain Routing in 1993.

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Early network design, when global end-to-end connectivity was envisioned for communications with all Internet hosts, intended that IP addresses be globally unique.

Intent of the new design was not to provide just a sufficient quantity of addresses, but redesign routing in the Internet by allowing more efficient aggregation of subnetwork routing prefixes.

In contrast, when a computer's IP Internet address is assigned each time it restarts, this is known as using a dynamic IP Internet address.

An IP Internet address conflict occurs when two devices on the same local physical or wireless network claim to have the same IP Internet address.

The destination Internet address used for directed broadcast to devices on the network is.

Multicast Internet address is associated with a group of interested receivers.