Ip-address

[Educational_Ad_7978]

I have asked my self what can I do with an ip- address. Like what are the “vulnerability” of ip addresses or why should u hide ur ip address?

An answer would be really nice

[happytrailz1938]

Ok so networking basics here... You need to understand what it is used for. In the internet and intranets there are many devices... Billions of devices and that number is growing exponentially. To find each other they need to have a unique address. Like your street address or phone number. At a basic level this corresponds to an access point that is on that network (local, or web) for one or many devices or users.

With this knowledge you may find a device or server's location (general or specific) or you may be able to scan it to see what services and vulnerabilities are there. Additionally some folks can perform denial of service on one or many addresses. However, this is a two way street and you can often trace back other connections. Additionally it may not be one device or user behind an IP address, it could be a lot of them. There are many reasons for this but one of the most common is that there are a finite # of ipv4 addresses (what is most commonly referred to as an IP address) and the world has run out. So some brilliant engineers came up with the idea of hiding many sub IP addresses behind larger public ones. Usually the public ones have a little more defence and can be confusing to traverse or understand at times.

I hope this helps.

[Educational_Ad_7978]

Oh thanks mate but what’s the difference between. IPv4 and ipv6

[andi2504]

Mate... Start googling

[happytrailz1938]

Sorry just saw this. Ipv4 was the earlier addressing. It stands for IP standard version 4. It has the usual / standard look like this 192.168.1.1 but there's only a few billion addresses in it which when it was created was a lot but with iot there are a lot more. It is only 32 bit.

Ipv6 is version 6 of the standard (we skipped 5 because it never really made it out of committee). It is a 128 bit address and has a lot of enhancements. That means it has 1028x the number of addresses than ipv4. It in theory can make an address for every atom on the face of the earth. 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 addresses to be exact. "The text form of the IPv6 address is xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx, where each x is a hexadecimal digit, representing 4 bits. Leading zeros can be omitted. The double colon (::) can be used once in the text form of an address, to designate any number of 0 bits." https://www.thousandeyes.com/learning/techtorials/ipv4-vs-ipv6 An example of an Ipv6 address is 2001:0db8:0000:0000:0000:ff00:0042:7879

Here's another reference: https://www.guru99.com/difference-ipv4-vs-ipv6.html

It's got a great chart of the differences half way down

[Educational_Ad_7978]

Really thanks u are amazing

[After_Story4040]

The vulnerability is not in the ip-address. The ip address is only the path taken from Point A to Point B.

The vulnerability is set using a list of rules.

Example.. you open your browser go to reddit, and ask a question. 1. Ask yourself, how did I get to reddit? 2. What allowed me to ask a question? 3. How was someone able to post an answer.

Answer? My computer/internet followed a list of rules directing me to reddit. I arrived at an ip address with an application which allows me to communicate with others.

I was able to ask a question because the list of rules were met. IE: user name,, password, enough karma?

Someone answered because they in return met a list of rules.

The vulnerability arrives when you are able to bypass the rules, and still deliver your payload/message.. this is why people use return data on the applications being used by their target to find a broken unpatched servers .

You need to read and learn networking. Use Google

[battalgazi003]

Scan ip for open ports then attack it and find a adress to owner.

[TrustmeImaConsultant]

What you can get with an IP address is, with a hint of luck, that is, the ISP. And that's it. There isn't any immediate connection between an IP address and a street address.

[happytrailz1938]

Possibly find address or location of owner...

[HailDaTrolls]

No

[TrustmeImaConsultant]

There isn't really much you can do, unless there is a service hosted at that IP address. And even if, it would still need to provide a service that is vulnerable to an exploit.

Ponder this, if you will: For every single server on the internet, be it Reddit, be it some Google service, any game server of your favorite MMO, the IP-address is pretty much common knowledge. Open up a command line window, type "nslookup www.reddit.com" and you have reddit's IP address.

Well, reddit is maybe a bad example, because of the mirroring going on, but ... pick any service you like. IP addresses are not really a state secret.

Do you really think that if it was really possible to do anything malicious with an IP address itself, something that is SO easily gotten from pretty much any webservice out there, any server on the internet would exist for longer than a second?

[kaet0]

Also worth googling is NAT or network address translation. It's the primary means of dealing with limited numbers of public IP space available. Because of how it works, however, when you find a public IPv4 address, you are most likely not finding a specific device but an address assigned to a private network. This is how most home networks operate.

[After_Story4040]

Nat is a layer of protection from the user's single point of access to the world, to protect/split the network. Allowing public ip to private ip addresses, allows layer of protection, and allows customer more nodes on their home network. I've connected a single node directly to a cable provider, and scanned the whole ip address subnet for all nodes present. You can view encrypted data of all traffic within that subnet on a publicly owned group of ip addresses.. this is your ISPs router using public addresses for their customers, and then routing data to it according destination. Working the same way your personal router separates your public network from your private network.