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Friday, May 3rd, 2024 10:30 PM

What does iP Adresses do

I have 3 iPV6 adresses, what does these mean & Do? Is Someone Tracking me or Hacking Me?

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2 months ago

What do you mean by "you have 3 IPv6 addresses?"  Where did you learn this?  Why does this concern you?

If you are using the Internet, you have an IP address, it may be an IPv4 or it may be an IPv6 (you might have both).  It might belong to you for a while (like AT&T Wired Internet) or it may change fairly often as you move around (e.g. a smart phone).  You might share your public IP address with others (again, the smart phone).  If you're in a home network behind a standard NAT router, you have a local or private IP address in addition to the public one presented to the rest of the Internet.

If you didn't have an IP address, then responses to your requests on the Internet could never reach you.

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