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Who manages all the IP Addresses ?

The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) manages the IP address space allocations globally, it delegates 5 regional authorities to allocate these.

Different Classes of IP Address

PRIVATE IP ADDRESSES

IP addresses are divided into various classes A, B, or C There are also some private IP addresses put aside for various activities for example internal LAN networks would use these. See list below;IANA-reserved private IPv4 network ranges The three blocks of IP addresses which have been reserved for private networks are:

10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255 ;Class A

172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255 Class B

192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 Class C

STANDARD IP ADDRESSES

IP Class A addresses are for very large corporations or organisations government etc. A class A IP address starts with a first octet from 1 to 126 all in this range are part of this class. IP class B addresses have first octets with a decimal number from 128 to 191. IP class C addresses have first octets with a decimal number from 192 to 223. Normally ISP are allocated a set of these for their consumers.

Did you know

The term IP used in IP Address stands for Internet Protocol. There are many types of protocol used in computing IP is used for all Internet Traffic.

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