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What is the total amount of public IPv4 addresses?

According to Reserved IP addresses there are 588,514,304 reserved addresses and since there are 4,294,967,296 (2^32) IPv4 addressess in total, there are 3,706,452,992 public addresses.

And too many addresses in this post.


https://www.ripe.net/internet-coordination/press-centre/understanding-ip-addressing

For IPv4, this pool is 32-bits (2³²) in size and contains 4,294,967,296 IPv4 addresses.

In case of IPv6

The IPv6 address space is 128-bits (2¹²⁸) in size, containing 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 IPv6 addresses.

inclusive of RESERVED IP

 Reserved address blocks
 Range  Description Reference

 0.0.0.0/8  Current network (only valid as source address)  RFC 6890
 10.0.0.0/8 Private network RFC 1918
 100.64.0.0/10  Shared Address Space    RFC 6598
 127.0.0.0/8    Loopback    RFC 6890
 169.254.0.0/16 Link-local  RFC 3927
 172.16.0.0/12  Private network RFC 1918
 192.0.0.0/24   IETF Protocol Assignments   RFC 6890
 192.0.2.0/24   TEST-NET-1, documentation and examples  RFC 5737
 192.88.99.0/24 IPv6 to IPv4 relay (includes 2002::/16) RFC 3068
 192.168.0.0/16 Private network RFC 1918
 198.18.0.0/15  Network benchmark tests RFC 2544
 198.51.100.0/24    TEST-NET-2, documentation and examples  RFC 5737
 203.0.113.0/24 TEST-NET-3, documentation and examples  RFC 5737
 224.0.0.0/4    IP multicast (former Class D network)   RFC 5771
 240.0.0.0/4    Reserved (former Class E network)   RFC 1700
 255.255.255.255    Broadcast   RFC 919

wiki has full details and this has details of IPv6.


Just a small correction for Marko's answer: exact number can't be produced out of some general calculations straight forward due to the next fact: Valid IP addresses should also not end with binary 0 or 1 sequences that have same length as zero sequence in subnet mask. So the final answer really depends on the total number of subnets (Marko's answer - 2 * total subnet count).


Public IP Addresses

https://github.com/stephenlb/geo-ip will generate a list of Valid IP Public Addresses including Localities.

'1.0.0.0/8' to '191.0.0.0/8' are the valid public IP Address range exclusive of the reserved Private IP Addresses as follows:

import iptools
## Private IP Addresses
private_ips = iptools.IpRangeList(
    '0.0.0.0/8',      '10.0.0.0/8',     '100.64.0.0/10', '127.0.0.0/8',
    '169.254.0.0/16', '172.16.0.0/12',  '192.0.0.0/24',  '192.0.2.0/24',
    '192.88.99.0/24', '192.168.0.0/16', '198.18.0.0/15', '198.51.100.0/24',
    '203.0.113.0/24', '224.0.0.0/4',    '240.0.0.0/4',   '255.255.255.255/32'
)

IP Generator

Generates a JSON dump of IP Addresses and associated Geo information. Note that the valid public IP Address range is from '1.0.0.0/8' to '191.0.0.0/8' excluding the reserved Private IP Address ranges shown lower down in this readme.

docker build -t geo-ip .
docker run -e IPRANGE='54.0.0.0/30' geo-ip               ## a few IPs
docker run -e IPRANGE='54.0.0.0/26' geo-ip               ## a few more IPs
docker run -e IPRANGE='54.0.0.0/16' geo-ip               ## a lot more IPs
docker run -e IPRANGE='0.0.0.0/0'   geo-ip               ## ALL IPs ( slooooowwwwww )
docker run -e IPRANGE='0.0.0.0/0'   geo-ip > geo-ip.json ## ALL IPs saved to JSON File
docker run geo-ip 

A little faster option for scanning all valid public addresses:

for i in $(seq 1 191); do \
    docker run -e IPRANGE="$i.0.0.0/8" geo-ip; \
    sleep 1; \ 
done

This prints less than 4,228,250,625 JSON lines to STDOUT. Here is an example of one of the lines:

{"city": "Palo Alto", "ip": "0.0.0.0", "longitude": -122.1274,
 "continent": "North America", "continent_code": "NA",
 "state": "California", "country": "United States", "latitude": 37.418,
 "iso_code": "US", "state_code": "CA", "aso": "PubNub",
 "asn": "11404", "zip_code": "94107"}

Private and Reserved IP Range

The dockerfile in the repo above will exclude non-usable IP addresses following the guide from the wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserved_IP_addresses

MaxMind Geo IP

The dockerfile imports a free public Database provided by https://www.maxmind.com/en/home