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Questions tagged [ip-address]

a numerical label assigned to devices in a computer network.

This tag is for questions relating to "Internet Protocol" addresses, or IP addresses, and related programming questions.

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Why did the creators of the Internet Protocol decide to use IP addresses to identify a particular computer?

Why did the creators of the Internet Protocol decide to use IP addresses to identify a particular computer? Why not just have a unique ID assigned to each computer upon manufacture, then use that ID for identification of the computer?
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Reduce a list of IPv4 to lowest common CIDR

I have a long list of IP addresses that show some pattern of closeness Example: XX.249.91.16 XX.249.91.21 XX.249.91.32 XX.249.91.160 XX.249.91.165 XX.249.92.15 XX.249.92.25 XX.249.92.51 XX.249.92.234 and sometimes a whois reveals…
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Is restricting sessions to an absolute IP likely to have a wide impact on mobile networks?

Our website currently restricts a cookie-based session to the IP address that was originally sent the Set-Cookie HTTP header. In the past a user's IP would rarely change, so this didn't present much inconvenience. However, some of our clients…
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How can an anycast IP address handle millions of RPS (requests per second)

So, in terms of systems design: given a highly scalable system being served through a single load-balanced anycast IP address, when that system receives a load in the order of (hundreds of) millions of requests per second, then how should the load…
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Term for "IP address or DNS name"

We have a column in a database table that can hold either an IP address or a DNS name, and we're struggling to name it without leaning one way or another. Is there a "standard" term that means "IP address or DNS name"? Please include a reference to…
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Using IP to calculate Tax

I understand that if I sell things online, I need to calculate Taxes based on customer location. Can I use IP to locate customer or should I ask them explicitly? If it is fine to use IP to identify customer's Country, is it fine to locate customer…
Yevgeniy Afanasyev
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listening to packets in promiscuous mode

I am working on an application that get packets that don't belong to the pc,so i use promiscuous mode on my NIC,i need to read the packet and and handle it. Because i don't have any connection formed and the packets can use either TCP or UDP(only…
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What IP protocol number should I use for my custom IP protocol?

I want do develop an IP based protocol oriented to smallest possible data overhead. For example UDP adds overhead of 8 bytes header. I want zero header. I will use this protocol via 2G mobile network where every byte is paid. For example 8 bytes…
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Remotely monitoring bash terminal progress

I'm thinking of creating a system which would help me transfer the output of my bash terminal to an app in a remote device(like my Android smartphone). I was thinking of tackling this problem as just a read and write problem on two ends of a Socket…
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Socket Connecting to Large number of IPs

I have a text file of ~600 CIDR notation IP blocks which, when expanded, amount to ~17.5M IP addresses. I need to socket connect to each one. If it connects, I add it to a "live" list, if it returns an error/refusal, to a "dead" list. Then the…
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For a socket based application : how must I handle dynamic ip adress?

I plan to write an network application whose use steps is the following : Connect to the server and choose a name (and enter your email "id") The list of others "free" (not playing a game) players is shown to you : so you have to select one. The…
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IP Whitelisting AWS consumers

If consumers of my API have their software on AWS, their ip address is subject to change if they are scaling their services horizontally (adding more machines). This means that I can't whitelist a single ip address to ensure only the trusted…
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Can RMI or CORBA operate over IP?

Question: Can RMI or CORBA operate over IP? I don't think RMI can - does it not operate over IIOP?
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How implement an IP stack?

I want to understand what implement an IP stack means. I explain myself : I've wrote two Java little applications (Client-Server) which communicate over a LAN with TLS. In my code, I didn't have to deal with IP addressing : First I would get IP…
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How can I make sure that people changes his IP or not

I want to check that people who registrates in my site and check in country box , for example, Argentina is really living in Argentina. How can I make sure that people is really living in that country and not access to my site via proxy or VPN?
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