IP Address - Public Addresses

Public Addresses

A public IP address, in common parlance, is synonymous with a globally routable unicast IP address.

Both IPv4 and IPv6 define address ranges that are reserved for private networks and link-local addressing. The term public IP address often used excludes these types of addresses.

Read more about this topic:  IP Address

Famous quotes containing the words public and/or addresses:

    Yes; the public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
    Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness and love give. I am man before being a prince, and when I have the good fortune to be in love, my mistress addresses a man and not a prince.
    Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)