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How are IP addresses assigned?

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Mar 15, 202637641 views

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How are IP addresses assigned? What if someone from USA and someone from Australia connected to the internet at the same time - how would they not have the same IP address?

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Because public IP addresses are not picked at random, they are allocated by your Internet Service Provider; who in-turn gets a block assigned to them from the next level, and so on to IANA/ICANN. Think of this as, only ICANN give IP addresses YOU ca…

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