got a weird public ip (on all computers)

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I got a public ip like this: 2u567d:3fce:e70drtb9:22fdrt0e:dedrtdrt (edited some letters cos i don't want everyone to see my ip) and usually i have an ip like 192.565.233

it is on all my computers, is this normal?

 

 

[Arty]

you mean ipv6, vs ipv4.......

 

You have both as your ip.

the long one is the new standard which is slowly being switched too.

by slowly i mean over the past decade and probably  across the next decade or 2. 

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Just now, Arty said:

you mean ipv6, vs ipv4.......

I think yes, asking if its normal

[Arty]

Just now, NickLiam123 said:

I think yes, asking if its normal

you gotta let me finish editing my post! xD. 

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1 minute ago, Arty said:

you gotta let me finish editing my post! xD. 

so i dont need to be worried about it?

[Arty]

Just now, NickLiam123 said:

so i dont need to be worried about it?

nope you should be fine

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2 minutes ago, Arty said:

you gotta let me finish editing my post! xD. 

thanks for helping me

[SaladFingers]

Like already been mentioned, what you're seeing is your ipv6, it's a much more robust and safer protocol while also allowing for many many more IPs to exist at the same time. You probably have both ipv4 and ipv6 enabled, and it will take a while until everything moves completely to pure ipv6.

 

Edit: Actually, it isn't the same on all of your computers. If you look closer, the last digits differ on each device. Essentially, with ipv4, you have one single public IP and then your local devices are sitting behind a NAT router that assigns them local IPs. With ipv6, each and every device will have its own *public* IP on the internet. Kind of like a MAC address really.

[jameshumphries47]

7 minutes ago, SaladFingers said:

Like already been mentioned, what you're seeing is your ipv6, it's a much more robust and safer protocol while also allowing for many many more IPs to exist at the same time. You probably have both ipv4 and ipv6 enabled, and it will take a while until everything moves completely to pure ipv6.

 

Edit: Actually, it isn't the same on all of your computers. If you look closer, the last digits differ on each device. Essentially, with ipv4, you have one single public IP and then your local devices are sitting behind a NAT router that assigns them local IPs. With ipv6, each and every device will have its own *public* IP on the internet. Kind of like a MAC address really.

so are these IP's static, and do not change over time like a dynamic ip? 

[SaladFingers]

Just now, jameshumphries47 said:

so are these IP's static, and do not change over time like a dynamic ip? 

That doesn't have to do with the version of your IP. If your ISP (Internet Service Provider) allows for a static IP, both versions will remain static. Some charge for that, too. Otherwise if it is dynamic, it will change whenever you re-sync your connection or whenever they change it systematically. 

[Arty]

2 minutes ago, jameshumphries47 said:

so are these IP's static, and do not change over time like a dynamic ip? 

they both include static and dynamic like ipv4. depends on how your isp handles it.

[jameshumphries47]

Just now, SaladFingers said:

That doesn't have to do with the version of your IP. If your ISP (Internet Service Provider) allows for a static IP, both versions will remain static. Some charge for that, too. Otherwise if it is dynamic, it will change whenever you re-sync your connection or whenever they change it systematically. 

 

Just now, Arty said:

they both include static and dynamic like ipv4. depends on how your isp handles it.

oh okay guys cheers for that, i think having a static IP for all devices would be much less of a headache for me haha, the ISP im on will not give out statics to a residential customer, which sucks for me! as i alot of port forwarding. obviously if everything was static, then safety would be an issue. and there would be unused devices having an IP. Which of course wont be a problem in the foreseeable future with IPv6 but it would become one eventually. So i guess im stuck with my Dynamic IP addresses!

[SaladFingers]

4 minutes ago, jameshumphries47 said:

 

oh okay guys cheers for that, i think having a static IP for all devices would be much less of a headache for me haha, the ISP im on will not give out statics to a residential customer, which sucks for me! as i alot of port forwarding. obviously if everything was static, then safety would be an issue. and there would be unused devices having an IP. Which of course wont be a problem in the foreseeable future with IPv6 but it would become one eventually. So i guess im stuck with my Dynamic IP addresses!

 

Actually, when port forwarding you do it locally - the NAT router is what will connect said local device with the internet. It's all done because it has to connect a single public IP with multiple local devices. Ipv6 makes this irrelevant as each device has its own public IP, thus alleviating the need to port forward. But for the time being, not everything can make use of Ipv6 so yeah... sit tight

 

Edit: There might be some cases of port forwarding with ipv6 actually, but I'm not familiar with such practices so I can't help you there.

[jameshumphries47]

4 minutes ago, SaladFingers said:

 

Actually, when port forwarding you do it locally - the NAT router is what will connect said local device with the internet. It's all done because it has to connect a single public IP with multiple local devices. Ipv6 makes this irrelevant as each device has its own public IP, thus alleviating the need to port forward. But for the time being, not everything can make use of Ipv6 so yeah... sit tight

 

Edit: There might be some cases of port forwarding with ipv6 actually, but I'm not familiar with such practices so I can't help you there.

oh right, i see! its such a pain of all my external ip's change every few days, i really need to ring up my ISP and get a static when i get a chance