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Your current Internet Protocal (IP) address is - 38.103.63.17.
Kayal on the Web stores this IP address when certain actions are performed - like posting
of messages etc so that it can prevent abuse of the service. Please note, with the IP address,
it is possible for us to identify the country of origin and the ISP through
which the message arrived. It is also possible - with the help of the ISP - to identify the actual
end user if required. Please note, the display of country of origin online has 90+% accuracy
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Everytime you connect to the Internet through dialup or broadband methods, your Internet Service
Provider (ISP) will allot to you an IP address from a block of IP addresses it owns.
IP address is a numbering system that allows identifying Computers etc on the Internet.
For example, let us say you are in Kayalpatnam trying to connect to the Internet. You probably would be
connecting through the BSNL dialup connection. After you dial up (and everytime you dial up), BSNL
would allot to you an IP address from a block of IP addresses. This would be unique to you for
that particular session (and can be different next time you dialup; but would be from the block of
addresses BSNL owns). BSNL would also store in its log to which user this particular
IP address was allotted at that particular time on that particular date. This would allow it to
trace back any abusive user at anytime in the future.
Only because of an IP address, it is possible for us to surf the Web, chat etc.
When we type http://www.hotmail.com in our browser, we are actually requesting a page from
hotmail.com. Our ISP would immediately translate hotmail.com to an IP address
connected to hotmail.com and request the page. In turn, hotmail.com would return the page to us.
The page from hotmail.com would reach us correctly because hotmail.com would know our
IP address (from the time we made the request).
IP addresses are the backbones of the Internet. The current system provides
for about 4 billion unique IP addresses - shared among all the ISPs and other similar providers
around the world. They range from 0.0.0.0 to 255.255.255.255 - with a few exceptions in
between for technical purposes. The next generation numbering system - called IP v6 - is being
rolled in to accommodate millions more ip addresses.
Briefly, every device connected to the Internet (whether it is a Website, your PC etc)
has an IP address attached to it.
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