IP Address numbers

James Knott james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Sun Dec 26 18:02:01 UTC 2010


James Knott wrote:
> I use an add-in for Seamonkey and Firefox browsers, which shows the IP 
> address (IPv4 or IPv6) of a web site.  One thing I've noticed is after 
> the IP address, there's often something like +1 or +5.  This occurs 
> with both IPv4 and IPv6.  Does anyone have any idea what those "+" 
> numbers represent?
>

Here's an example for google.ca:
2001:4860:800f::63 +1
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