• TuriousA
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    5 months ago

    IP addresses can’t have segment numbers going over 255.

    • Ephera@lemmy.ml
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      5 months ago

      Yeah, IPv4 addresses use four bytes. Those four bytes are represented as four decimal numbers, separated by dots. And a byte can only represent the decimal values 0–255.