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Just wondering about the minimum character count of an IPv4 / IPv6 address in string representation. What's the shortest valid IP address?
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1.1. 1.1 would be a valid IP address, so the answer to your question is "7".
The minimum length of an IP header is 20 bytes, or five 32-bit increments. The maximum length of an IP header is 24 bytes, or six 32-bit increments. Therefore, the header length field should contain either 5 or 6.
An IPv4 address is 32 bits. An IP Address is shown as 4 decimal numbers representing 4 bytes: d.d.d.d where d = decimal number (0 - 255).
An IP address is a string of numbers separated by periods. IP addresses are expressed as a set of four numbers — an example address might be 192.158.1.38. Each number in the set can range from 0 to 255.
1.1.1.1 would be a valid IP address, so the answer to your question is "7".
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Technically, you can omit the first three octects if the are 0, therefore shortest ipv4 address is one byte, it is "1", a shorthand for "0.0.0.1".
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