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Bogon IP addresses can, not entirely accurately, be thought of as fake IP addresses.  The bogon IP space not assigned to any entity by Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) and RIR (Regional Internet Registry) may be as of yet unassigned or may be specially reserved for private network use.  Addresses reserved for private networks, such as those in 10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12, and 192.168.0.0/16 are considered bogon.  Local machine loopback addresses like those in 127.0.0.0/8 and link-local addresses like 169.254.0.0/16 are also bogon.Bogon IP addresses can, not entirely accurately, be thought of as fake IP addresses.  The bogon IP space not assigned to any entity by Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) and RIR (Regional Internet Registry) may be as of yet unassigned or may be specially reserved for private network use.  Addresses reserved for  [[IPv4 Private Address Space]], such as those in 10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12, and 192.168.0.0/16 are considered bogon.  Local machine loopback addresses like those in 127.0.0.0/8 and link-local addresses like 169.254.0.0/16 are also bogon.  198.51.100.0/24 TEST-NET-2  198.51.100.0/24 TEST-NET-2  ::1/128 Node-scope unicast loopback address  ::1/128 Node-scope unicast loopback address[[Category:Computer_Technology]][[Category:Networking]]
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