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I was just flicking through my new android phone, ended up on my I.P address, and it had 6 addresses?!?

One IPv4
One IPv6
4 IPv6 with single colons

I might be a bit thick, but shouldn't a device have 2 I.P's at max? Or am I wrong?

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  • 2
    7y
    Can you attach screenshot?
  • 1
    7y
    @mazabin I'd rather not as it could be to do with external I.P's, but it's not too important, just one of those annoying things that I can't forget xD
  • 1
    7y
    You can anonimize the numbers I'm just curious about that weird IPv6s. :)
  • 1
    7y
    Also I just had a pretty serious brain freeze while rrying to find a word for numbers in English. Hate when my brain does that.
  • 2
    7y
    Look up "Privacy Extension for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in IPv6".

    It is enabled by default in Android and involves periodically cycling between new semi-randomly generated addresses within a given /64 subnet.
  • 1
    7y
    Thanks, I will!
  • 0
    7y
    @Polarina huh, intriguing. Thank you!
  • 1
    7y
    My Windows Desktop reports 15 IPs 13 of which are `0.0.0.0`
  • 0
    7y
    @romangraef ah, I love Windows. It's like watching a very stupid, very spoilt child acting like an adult sometimes :)
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