Jesse or Tony or whomever here is an article I found hope it helps to explain how an IP address ACTUALLY works so you wont dig yourself deeper into a hole because there is no denying you are all the same person
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PUBLISHED: May 1, 2001
WRITTEN BY: Mark Brownlow
Synonyms: Internet Protocol Address
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Using the Internet is all about exchanging electronic information with other computers. Visiting a website just means communicating with a computer which contains the files making up that website. This computer (web server) is somewhere "out there" hooked up to the Internet just like your PC is.
Last week we discovered how TCP/IP ensured that your request to view a website, for example, gets sent to the right computer (i.e. the one where that website's files are located), and the relevant information gets sent back to your PC.
We introduced the idea of the IP address, suggesting that each computer connected to the Internet has its own unique IP address, so that electronic data can be sent around just like postal mail, always going to the right computer, as identified by its IP address.
This left the question of what an IP address actually looks like. Well, a typical IP address looks like this:
213.47.112.79
It's just a series of numbers, separated by periods. The number in the example is the IP address of the computer I am sitting in front of right now. It's unique.
So what do these numbers mean?
An IP address actually consists of four numbers (known as octets), each separated by a period, and each of which can vary between 1 and 255. This string of four numbers consists of 2 parts.
The first part identifies a specific pre-defined network. You can think of a network as a group of computers. For example, if the first number in the IP address is an 18, then it refers to a computer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The number 12 is AT&T. The numbers 0 to 127 in the first octet have been allocated to such specific, large networks.
Smaller networks are identified by a combination of the first, second and even third set of numbers. So the numbers 128.0.x.x to 191.255.x.x refer to specific, medium-sized networks, and the numbers 192.0.0.x to 223.255.255.x to smaller networks.
An IP address beginning 155.57, for example, refers to the Levi Strauss & Co. network, and one beginning 213.47.112 (like mine) to Chello Austria Customers in Vienna (me!<img src="http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='
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The second part of the IP address (i.e. the remaining numbers) then identifies the specific computer within the local network.
Since the network part of the IP address is pre-assigned and thus fixed, the computers that make up the Internet's infrastructure always "know" where to send information destined for a particular IP address - they don't worry about the local part of the address, they just forward the information to the right network.
Once the information arrives at the network, it is then sent to the right computer in that network (since the network manages the IP addresses of its own computers, it obviously "knows" where to send the information to).
So supposing I want to view a website hosted on a computer with the address 212.48.12.179. My browser would send out the request to the Internet through my Internet Service Provider (ISP). The request is automatically forwarded to the network represented by the 212.28.12 part of the address. Once it reaches that network, it would be forwarded to the local computer assigned the number 179.
The request would then be processed and sent back using the same technique (my computer's IP address would be attached to the original request, just like a sender's stamp on a letter). When you connect to the Internet, your ISP (your local network) will automatically allocate you an IP address, so your browser knows what "return address" to put on its messages!
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