IP(Internet protocol) address :
An IP address a unique string of numbers (Basically
4 octets of binary) separated by full stops that identify each computer using
the Internet Protocol to communicate over a network.
Your ISP (Internet
service provider) provides an IP address to your phone which can be valid for a
small time (Static IP) or can be valid for a long time (Dynamic IP).
How an IP address works :
As soon as we
turn on your data connection, our ISP provide an IP address to our device which
is only valid for a specific amount of time means as soon as we turn off our
data connection the IP will be released and after that our ISP can provide the
same IP to another devices.
To understand
this properly
Lets dig out
the things from very base level, at very first (I am taking an example of real
life scenario)
Any ISP
provider let’s assume JIO for now...
JIO contacts
NIR (search in Google for more info on NIR)...
Yes, so JIO
contacts NIR and let’s say buy 50,000 IP addresses...
Now of anyone
who is using JIO turns on his\her data connection
JIO assigns an
IP address to the device, and as soon as we turn off your data connection, That
IP address is released....
AND THEN JIO
CAN PROVIDE THE SAME IP ADDRESS TO SOMEONE ELSE!
That’s why IP address
cannot be used for location tracking IP address does not have any location property;
you might have seen some websites who claim to provide location on the basis of
IP address...
What they do
is that...
They provide
the location of the IP address provider...
In the above
case these websites will show the location of any JIO center who has provided
that IP to you.
You might also
have seen in movies that the police uses IP address to get to the criminal, in
that case police checks that who has provided that IP , so as JIO was provided
that IP ,they asks JIO to provide the info about whom they have provided the
specific IP at the desired time
So they hand
over all the details they have about the person to whom they provided the IP
address.
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