What are IP Addresses

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What are IP Addresses

Submitted by Srikanth on Thursday, 22 November 20078 Comments

An IP address (Internet Protocol address) is a unique address that certain electronic devices currently use in order to identify and communicate with each other on a computer network utilizing the Internet Protocol standard (IP)—in simpler terms, a computer address. Any participating network device—including routers, switches, computers, infrastructure servers (e.g., NTP, DNS, DHCP, SNMP, etc.), printers, Internet fax machines, and some telephones—can have its own address that is unique within the scope of the specific network. Some IP addresses are intended to be unique within the scope of the global Internet, while others need to be unique only within the scope of an enterprise.
The IP address acts as a locator for one IP device to find another and interact with it. It is not intended, however, to act as an identifier that always uniquely identifies a particular device. In current practice, an IP address is less likely to be an identifier, due to technologies such as Dynamic assignment and Network address translation.

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8 Comments »

Novice said:

HI There,

In a situation where i need to find a remote computers IP address, how do i go about that?

Thank yo for a brilliant site, no scams and very informative tutorials.

- 9 December 2008 at 9:41 pm

feki said:

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- 3 February 2009 at 5:56 pm

biswajit das said:

SRIKANTH CAN U TELL ME WHAT THE PROCEDURE TO SUBMIT MY POST.BCAS I AM THE NEW MEMBER.PLZ HLP ME

- 26 February 2009 at 5:02 pm

Srikanth (author) said:

@ biswajit das

What post you wanna submit?

- 26 February 2009 at 6:17 pm

jatin said:

i want to know how to hack or operate some one computer througt ip address will you plz post the txt file after write the steps

jatinjain23@yahoo.com

plz its urgent to know

- 7 March 2009 at 1:03 am

Virendra said:

Hi Shrikant,
when will you come with some new posts

- 1 April 2009 at 1:42 pm

Aanchal said:

Hello Srikanth, I am a CS student and I must say what your website is very educational. I was checking this to find the physical location using IP address. OK, my question is how to find out the exact IP address on your system without using any website?

thanks

Aanchal

- 30 June 2009 at 4:23 pm

Pujan said: