QandAs: Tech

What is an IP Address?

Answer:
An IP address or Internet Protocol is a way

to send information over a network, and an Internet Protocol address is a string of numbers which serves to locate a device on a network. Today, each computer has an IP Address. A publicly accesible website has an IP address in which a domain name points to. The idea is that domain names make finding a publicly accessible website easier by giving it a name rather than a set of numbers.

IP addresses were determined by geographic location and were globally unique (different than any other device in the world) and static (semi-permanent). The advent of dynamic (changing) IP addresses or DHCP changed this.

Dynamic IP addresses are designed to help make it easier to administer a network by keeping the administrator from having to manually assign an IP address to ever device on the network. Static IP addresses are still used in certain situations. An IP address is made up of of 4 sets of numbers like 180.100.1.1. A variety of devices can have IP addresses including routers, computers, and printers.

Below is the IP address and Host information for the computer you are browsing this web page with.
Display IP address:
38.103.63.18

More detailed host address:
38.103.63.18

Display browser info:
CCBot/1.0 (+http://www.commoncrawl.org/bot.html)

Where you came from (if you clicked on a link to get here:
Page was directly requested