Your Connection Network Profile
Your IP Address: 216.73.217.116
Your IP Port: 36358
Your Host Name: 216.73.217.116
Your Browser Identifier (User Agent):
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)
IP Address Classification, IPv4
IP, short for Internet Protocol, is an address assigned to a computer or other network device using IP or TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol). For example, the number "166.70.10.23" is an example of such an address. These addresses are similar to physical mailing addresses on houses and help data reach its appropriate destination across networks.
There are five main classes of available IP address ranges: Class A, Class B, Class C, Class D, and Class E, while only Classes A, B, and C are commonly used for standard host networking.
| Class | Address Range | Supports |
|---|---|---|
| Class A | 1.0.0.1 to 126.255.255.254 | Supports 16 million hosts on each of 127 networks. |
| Class B | 128.1.0.1 to 191.255.255.254 | Supports 65,000 hosts on each of 16,000 networks. |
| Class C | 192.0.1.1 to 223.255.254.254 | Supports 254 hosts on each of 2 million networks. |
| Class D | 224.0.0.0 to 239.255.255.255 | Reserved for multicast groups. |
| Class E | 240.0.0.0 to 254.255.255.254 | Reserved for experimental use. |
Ranges like 127.x.x.x are reserved for loopback tests (e.g., 127.0.0.1), and 255.255.255.255 is used for local network broadcasts.
What is IPv4 and IPv6?
IPv4 and IPv6 refer to versions of Internet Protocol addressing schemes.
IPv4 was adopted in the fall of 1989. It consists of 4 numbers in the range of 0 through 255 separated by period characters. IPv4 superseded version 3 (IPv3), which supported roughly 16.7 million addresses. IPv4 supports 4,294,967,296 (256^4) addresses. Due to global exhaustion, technologies like DHCP and NAT were introduced to manage IP assignments efficiently.
IPv6 was introduced to completely solve address exhaustion. IPv6 consists of 8 groups of numbers in the range of 0 through 65535 separated by colons, utilizing hexadecimal formatting. IPv6 supports 65536^8, or approximately 3.4 times 10^38 unique addresses (340 Undecillion). This allows an astronomical number of assignable IP addresses for every connected device worldwide.
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