Internet Protocol Addressing
This is a unique string of numbers that identifies a computer or server on the Internet. These numbers are normally shown in groups separated by periods. Example: 216.239.51.100 is Google's IP address. Hosting accounts for websites can have either a shared or unique IP address.For readability purposes, humans typically work with IP addresses in a decimal notation that uses periods to separate each octet. For example, the IP address
00001010 00000000 00000000 00000001 Usually appears in the equivalent dotted decimal representation 10.0.0.1 Because each byte is 8 bits in length, each octet in an IP address ranges in value from a minimum of 0 to a maximum of 255. Therefore, the full range of IP addresses is from 0.0.0.0 through 255.255.255.255. That represents a total of 4,294,967,296 possible IP addreses.
