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IPv4

Address Ranges

RangePurposeRFCIPs
0.0.0.0/8“This Network”791, 112216,777,216
10.0.0.0/8Private Use191816,777,216
127.0.0.0/8Loopback112216,777,216
172.16.0.0/12Private Use19181,048,576
169.254.0.0/16Automatic Addressing392765,536
192.0.2.0/24Documentation (TEST-NET-1)5737256
192.168.0.0/16Private Use191865,536
198.51.100.0/24Documentation (TEST-NET-2)5737256
203.0.113.0/24Documentation (TEST-NET-3)5737256
224.0.0.0/4Multicast (Class D)5771268,435,456
240.0.0.0/4Reserved / Experimental (Class E)1122268,435,456

This Network

The 0.0.0.0 address literally means “when an app requests connectivity to 0.0.0.0, bind to every interface running IP and make it work”.

References

How Class E addresses solve for IP address exhaustion in GKE | Google Cloud Blog

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