What is my IP address?

What is my IP address?

This is one of the most asked questions on Google.

What is an IP address?

IP stands for internet protocol or an allotment of the numerical number to a computer that cagily helps to communicate with other devices over the network.

Why do we need an IP address?

Computers and the internet communicate with one another via underground and underwater cables or wirelessly.
Hence, a computer or another device should have a special address that enables communication.

If someone wants to send you mail, then he must have a mail address. Likewise, computers or other devices need an address, which is called an IP address.

An IP address is nothing but a set of numbers, which is obviously different for all computers. For instance, a postman verifies address by dint of knowing the district, locality, and street, etc. Likewise, the internet verifies the device's IP address before we switch to download any file or browse anything.

Types of IP address 

IP stands for internet protocol address.

Internet Protocol is a set of rules that helps the device to accumulate information as you searched my blog because your computer or mobile phone entails an IP address, and Google sends data accordingly.

The IP address has two types, namely:

1. IPV4

2. IPV6

1. IPV4: internet protocol version 4, consist of four numbers, separated with dots. Each number can be cyphered from 0-255 decimal. As we know, the computer can not decode the decimal type number. Therefore, it's converted into binary first.

   IPV4= N.N.N.N

       

  N= (0-255) Base  10             

 (00000000-11111111) Base 2

Consequently, an IP address of IPV4 can be expressed by 32 binary bits.

Thus, there are only 4294967296 devices can be allotted with IPV4 address.

It has a demerit, it can only connect  4294967296 amount of devices to the internet, which is not sufficient for every device because we have in billions.

So instead of IPV4, we are assimilating the IPV6 system, which is of 128-bit address.

IPV6: internet protocol version 6, consist of eight hexadecimal numbers, separated with colons.

IPV6 can connect 340282366930938463463374607431768211456 amount of devices which is far more than IPV4.

Note: Internet stream protocol (IPV5) also became part of the IP address family but it could not run successfully. It had some restrictions like communication on a specific frequency etc.

How to check the IP address?

To check IP, type "what is my IP" on the google search engine that will let you know an IP address of your system on top.

By IP address, we can place ourselves on spacial rankings, which allows us to manage confidentiality.

The IP address can also be classified into two types:

1) Dynamic IP address: when we connect our devices to the internet. The Internet service provider provides a unique address from available range to us. The IP address in dynamic keeps on changing every time. Because the IP address is not fixed but it changes as per availability notwithstanding range always remains the same.

2) Static IP address: in contrast to a dynamic IP address, it never changes. It is a permanent IP address. It is used in DNS (Domain Name System) service provider.

However, these are less secure than dynamic IP address because it's easy to track.

Basically, DNS is a system that helps to access available information with the help of URL. Like, we write YouTube.com on the internet then how the internet allows us to reach a page,  having full of videos, the reason is DNS.

When we search a site on Google. DNS decodes the IP address of that from the site's name that carries us through the page, we have searched.

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