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.

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