'Why does Google have a class B IP address?
Google has an IP address of 142.250.64.206. I found this out using nslookup.
Why is it class B and not class A? Isn't Google a huge network?
Solution 1:[1]
The whole A, B, C class system was obsoleted decades ago with the introduction of Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR). https://www.findip-address.com/ shows 142.250.64.206 is part of a /24 CIDR block, not a /16 as the class B would've indicated (years ago).
Schools still teach this though, and I am not sure why. But you should know that when someone gives you an address and also says "it's a class C mask" or simply (and, technically, incorrectly) "it's a class C", the mask is /24. That's the only time in comes up in the real world.
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