Internally, computer software don't use (or care) human readable text presentation of IPv4 addresses like 255.255.255.255. That's just meant for us dump, memory challenged humans (quick! tell me right now what is your 32-bit address in decimal notation! or how about in hexadecimal! or maybe in raw binary! ) So where human sees 255.255.255.255 the computer software or operating system could see it just ffffffff (that's hexadecimal presentation of 255.255.255.255) or maybe 4294967295 (decimal presentation). And of course, the actual hardware, the CPU, does not see even that but just raw binary of 32 'ones' like 11111111111111111111111111111111 As for IPv6, well they are already using the hex presentation because the damn thing has so large address space (128 bits) EDIT: And if someone want's to know how big the 128 bit is then it's 2^128 = 340 282 366 920 938 463 463 374 607 431 768 211 456 Yup, with IPv6 you could easily give every sand of grain on old planet Earth it's very own address. And there would propably be left over for some other planets too ....
Agreed. I think we're all trying to make the same end point. The range is 0-65535, which is 65536 values. I'm going to call that good enough for me for not wanting to drag this too far off topic.
Every time i try to change to "FFFFFFFF" changes back to "28" Has to be Winscribe submitted a support ticket, interesting what they will say, googled it and no results.
