Why are there 2 types of ip addresses like 172.16.254.1 or 2001:db8:0:1234:0:567:8:1?

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Landen Wilkins

Computers & Technology

19 August, 17:54

Why are there 2 types of ip addresses like 172.16.254.1 or 2001:db8:0:1234:0:567:8:1?

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Kiera Parrish · Answer 1

The first example is an IPv4 address. Because IPv4 is only 32 bits long there are only about 4 billion addresses available. To expand the address space IPv6 came into existence and your second example is an IPv6 address.