How can i get a specific ip address xxx.xxx.8.0?

Question

I have a very specific need of an ip address for an online game i play.

The 4 octanes of an ip like a.b.c.d

I need octane C to be any number divisible by 8. eg. 0,8,16,24...168, 240 etc

I need octane D to be 0 or 1 ( 0 is better)

It has to be my public ip address. I have tried a VPN and manage to get ip's such as xxx.xxx.8.3 which is quite good but not the best. Also it requires connecting and disconnecting to the VPN numerous times until i get a decent one.

I'm willing to pay for this either using a specific VPN that could meet my needs or by paying a premium to my ISP for a custom ip etc. I just need some help from the smart pc people on here as to what they would do in my situation.

Any help is much appreciated.

Answer 1

I'd be very curious to know why you need such a specific ip address. Ive never heard of such a thing.



To answer your question, you cannot choose what ip address you get.

Answer 2

Sorry, Brooksie, but that's wrong. The no zero rule applies to the complete host portion, not just the final octet. Provided you are using a class A or B address, then host portion is the last two or three octets so as long as they are not all zero, then it will work. Specifically, the rule states that the binary value of the host portion cannot be all 0. His would be 0000100000000000.



It's certainly no recommended though especially for public ips. Some older kit which still uses classed CIDR addressing and some firewalls don;t like it. Microsofts webservers get really upset if you try to access one of their sites with a zero end ip.



However, I too have to question which game is applying such rules. You don't seem to care about the first two octets so what difference would the last two possibly make. I've been a netwok engineer for over 5 years and I've never heard of a request like that.

Answer 3

Are you on crack?



The only way you can guarantee you have the same public IP address every time is if you pay your ISP for a static IP address. They will then assign you one out of the pool they have available. Each country is assigned a pool of addresses and those addresses are then assigned the the various ISPs. You can't ring up and make lunatic demands like this! They'll just give you the next IP on the list.



Also the 4th octet (D as you call it) cannot be zero, ever!

Answer 4

No. The problem is that is going to be a network address for any reasonably sized network. That means it is used by the core networking protocols and unavailable for use by a machine. To take ...8.0 as an example the smallest allocation they could give you that would allow you to use that address would be from ...0.0 through ...15.255. That means assigning over 4,000 IP addresses to you, IP addresses which are already in critically short supply. They're not going to give you such a large allocation on a whim. That is all this is... you wouldn't like to NAME this game that requires that address would you?