What is the total amount of public IPv4 addresses?
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Yes, I am needing to know what the total number possible IPs in the public IPv4 space.
I'm not sure where to even get a neat list of all the IP address ranges, so could someone point me to a resource to calculate this myself or calculate the total number of IPs for me?
Also, by Public IPs I mean not counting reserved or private-range IP addresses.. Only the ones that can be access through the internet.
Ip Address Solutions
Solution 1 - Ip Address
According to Reserved IP addresses there are 588,514,304 reserved addresses and since there are 4,294,967,296 (2^32) IPv4 addressess in total, there are 3,706,452,992 public addresses.
And too many addresses in this post.
Solution 2 - Ip Address
https://www.ripe.net/internet-coordination/press-centre/understanding-ip-addressing
> For IPv4, this pool is 32-bits (2³²) in size and contains 4,294,967,296 IPv4 addresses.
In case of IPv6 >The IPv6 address space is 128-bits (2¹²⁸) in size, containing 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 IPv6 addresses.
inclusive of RESERVED IP
Reserved address blocks
Range Description Reference
0.0.0.0/8 Current network (only valid as source address) RFC 6890
10.0.0.0/8 Private network RFC 1918
100.64.0.0/10 Shared Address Space RFC 6598
127.0.0.0/8 Loopback RFC 6890
169.254.0.0/16 Link-local RFC 3927
172.16.0.0/12 Private network RFC 1918
192.0.0.0/24 IETF Protocol Assignments RFC 6890
192.0.2.0/24 TEST-NET-1, documentation and examples RFC 5737
192.88.99.0/24 IPv6 to IPv4 relay (includes 2002::/16) RFC 3068
192.168.0.0/16 Private network RFC 1918
198.18.0.0/15 Network benchmark tests RFC 2544
198.51.100.0/24 TEST-NET-2, documentation and examples RFC 5737
203.0.113.0/24 TEST-NET-3, documentation and examples RFC 5737
224.0.0.0/4 IP multicast (former Class D network) RFC 5771
240.0.0.0/4 Reserved (former Class E network) RFC 1700
255.255.255.255 Broadcast RFC 919
Solution 3 - Ip Address
Just a small correction for Marko's answer: exact number can't be produced out of some general calculations straight forward due to the next fact: Valid IP addresses should also not end with binary 0 or 1 sequences that have same length as zero sequence in subnet mask. So the final answer really depends on the total number of subnets (Marko's answer - 2 * total subnet count).
Solution 4 - Ip Address
Public IP Addresses
> https://github.com/stephenlb/geo-ip will generate a list of Valid IP Public Addresses including Localities.
'1.0.0.0/8' to '191.0.0.0/8' are the valid public IP Address range exclusive of the reserved Private IP Addresses as follows:
import iptools
## Private IP Addresses
private_ips = iptools.IpRangeList(
'0.0.0.0/8', '10.0.0.0/8', '100.64.0.0/10', '127.0.0.0/8',
'169.254.0.0/16', '172.16.0.0/12', '192.0.0.0/24', '192.0.2.0/24',
'192.88.99.0/24', '192.168.0.0/16', '198.18.0.0/15', '198.51.100.0/24',
'203.0.113.0/24', '224.0.0.0/4', '240.0.0.0/4', '255.255.255.255/32'
)
IP Generator
Generates a JSON dump of IP Addresses and associated Geo information.
Note that the valid public IP Address range is
from '1.0.0.0/8' to '191.0.0.0/8' excluding the reserved
Private IP Address ranges shown lower down in this readme.
docker build -t geo-ip .
docker run -e IPRANGE='54.0.0.0/30' geo-ip ## a few IPs
docker run -e IPRANGE='54.0.0.0/26' geo-ip ## a few more IPs
docker run -e IPRANGE='54.0.0.0/16' geo-ip ## a lot more IPs
docker run -e IPRANGE='0.0.0.0/0' geo-ip ## ALL IPs ( slooooowwwwww )
docker run -e IPRANGE='0.0.0.0/0' geo-ip > geo-ip.json ## ALL IPs saved to JSON File
docker run geo-ip
A little faster option for scanning all valid public addresses:
for i in $(seq 1 191); do \
docker run -e IPRANGE="$i.0.0.0/8" geo-ip; \
sleep 1; \
done
This prints less than 4,228,250,625 JSON lines to STDOUT. Here is an example of one of the lines:
{"city": "Palo Alto", "ip": "0.0.0.0", "longitude": -122.1274,
"continent": "North America", "continent_code": "NA",
"state": "California", "country": "United States", "latitude": 37.418,
"iso_code": "US", "state_code": "CA", "aso": "PubNub",
"asn": "11404", "zip_code": "94107"}
Private and Reserved IP Range
The dockerfile in the repo above will exclude non-usable IP addresses following the guide from the wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserved_IP_addresses
MaxMind Geo IP
The dockerfile imports a free public Database provided by https://www.maxmind.com/en/home
Solution 5 - Ip Address
3.681 billion is the current total in the year 2020.