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Misplaced Networking Information on fluxbox-wiki.org/ #81

Open prg318 opened 3 years ago

prg318 commented 3 years ago

For some reason, it looks like some networking information has made its way into the fluxbox-wiki.org website:

Private IP addresses are not routable over the Internet and are meant to work within the local network only. Typically, a private IP address is assigned to each device inside your local network by your Motorola Router Login. This provides a unique IP address for all devices within the local network, such as your phone, laptop, smart TV, printer, media center, etc. Devices on the local network are connecting to the Internet through NAT (network address translation). The following IPv4 address ranges are reserved for the private networks:

    10.0.0.0/8
    192.168.0.0/16
    192.168.l0.1
    172.16.0.0/12

You can determine your system private IP address by querying the network stack with commands such as ip, ifconfig or hostname. In Linux, the standard tool for displaying and configuring network interfaces is ip. To display a list of all network interfaces and the associated IP address type the following command:

ip addr
You can also use the following commands to display the private IP address:
hostname -I
ifconfig

A Public IP address is a globally routable IP address that is assigned to a network device, allowing it direct access to the Internet. They are assigned to the device by its ISP, and each device has a unique public IP address. The public IP addresses are used by home routers, web servers, mail servers, and so on. Determining the public IP address involves contacting a remote server over the HTTP/HTTPS or DNS protocol and obtaining the IP address from the remote server response. If you are on a headless Linux server or you want to assign the IP address to a shell script variable you can use command-line tools such as dig , curl and wget.

In addition, the contribute page (http://fluxbox-wiki.org/contribute.html) has misplaced IP addresses that don't appear to be present in this github repo:

This wiki is not really a 10.0.0.0.1 wiki anymore, now its a Github Pages powered static HTML site. If you wish to contribute please follow this workflow: 

and

git add foo.html 
git add Find Your Router’s IP Address in Windows - 10.0.0.0.1
git commit -m "added foo" 

This misplaced networking information is absent from the github repo itself, so it looks like the fluxbox-wiki.org needs to get regenerated