HostIP
HostIP is a term used in computer networking to refer to the IP address assigned to a host—any device that participates in an IP network, such as a computer, server, mobile device, or IoT device. The HostIP serves to identify the device on the network and to route traffic to it. A host can have multiple IP addresses on different interfaces or networks.
IP addresses may be private (RFC 1918) used inside local networks, or public, routable on the wider
A host may also possess special addresses: the loopback address 127.0.0.1 (IPv4) or ::1 (IPv6) for internal
In practice, a host's IP is linked to a hostname via the Domain Name System (DNS). When