What is My IP Address?

What is My IP address?

What is my IP address? Do you know the answer of this question, may be. But actually most of people among us don’t know about the answer.  So now let me emphasize the term in a very simple way.

IP address (Internet Protocol address) is a very important address for all the devices which are being used in the field of Information Technology such as printers, routers, modems, etc. IP address is mandatory for all the IT devices which want to communicate with each other using a computer network. Just imagine that IP address is like your home address and the network is like your town. Now if anyone from town (network) wants to send a invitation (message) to you, then he must be having your home address (IP address). Without the specific address you will not be able to receive the information.

Domain Name System plays very important role in this area as it translates the IP address in words because it is much easier to remember a set of words instead of a set of numbers. For example, it is easier to remember my domain name http://www.arunendra.in/ in comparison to and IP address 202.85.189.147.

There is further classification of IP addresses which is as bellow:

1.      Dynamic IP address

2.      Static IP address

3.      IPv4

4.      IPv5

5.      IPv6

Dynamic IP Address:

Dynamic IP address can be changed at any point of time. It is helpful for those users who don’t want to have same IP address every time.  The customers who are using dial up connection, wireless and high speed internet connection can avail Dynamic IP address.

Static IP Address:

Static IP address becomes same for all the time. Most of the ISPs generally do not provide static IP address.

IPv4:

The number of computer in network is rising day by day, so now days IPv4 is being much popular among the industry.

IPv5:

This IP address is not used by lay man generally. It is used by UNIX based systems.

IPv6: 

Basically for the replacement purpose for aging IPv4.