Reserved IP addresses

In the Internet addressing architecture, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) have reserved various Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for special purposes.REFERENCE FOR RFC6890 IS NOT DEFINED YET. You are invited to add it here.

IPv4

IPv4 designates special usage or applications for various addresses or address blocks:REFERENCE FOR RFC6890 IS NOT DEFINED YET. You are invited to add it here.^[1] {{#section:IPv4|IPv4-special-address-blocks}}

IPv6

IPv6 assigns special uses or applications for various IP addresses:REFERENCE FOR RFC6890 IS NOT DEFINED YET. You are invited to add it here. {{#section:IPv6 address|IPv6-special-address-blocks}}

See also

• Bogon filtering
• Martian packet
• Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR)
• Top-level domain § Reserved domains

References

External links

• IANA IPv4 Special-Purpose Address Registry
• IANA IPv6 Special-Purpose Address Registry

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