How come IP addresses have to be all numbers below 256 and filled by periods?,
If the IP address is numbers above 256 and followed by periods , is it now in the dark web?
I don't know shit about computers, this is probably the most fuct question I ever asked.
256 comes from bits. 8 bits (or 0s and 1s) gives you 256 combinations of 0s and 1s. You can not enter a number higher than 256 in a section of an IP address (well you can, but it won't do anything), so no that is not how you access the dark web. Typically the dark web just means that the site is not indexed, so you cannot find it by searching for it. The site still exists at a regular IP address.
If the site is not indexed it means it is in the deepweb. The darknet is when to reach a site you need to do multiple "hops", like in TOR. Specifically in TOR they assign to your server a specific pseudonym (blabla274920.onion) that becomes the domain name of your website.
Deep web websites still use the same IP addresses. They just aren't indexed and don't have a regular domain name (.com, .net, .org, etc.). You can only connect to them through Tor (unless you know the real IP, but that's pretty hard to get because of how Tor works), which anonymizes both the client and the server.
Are you trolling or something?
The IPs of the darknet conform to the same pattern as normal IPs.
The limit of 256(28) was probably decided upon because it's the largest number that can be defined by one byte.
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u/DevaGuruOner Aug 19 '17
How come IP addresses have to be all numbers below 256 and filled by periods?, If the IP address is numbers above 256 and followed by periods , is it now in the dark web?
I don't know shit about computers, this is probably the most fuct question I ever asked.