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I am trying to get the local ip of the system using hostname -I. However, it is showing three IP addresses, instead of one. So, I would like to know what does more than one IP address signify?

Also, I would like to understand how did my system could end up with multiple IP addresses.

ph0t0nix
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Kshitij Mittal
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    This question has been asked here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/750597/hostname-i-spamming-more-than-one-ip-address – Benny May 21 '16 at 08:54

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Most likely you see some local IP's as well as an external IP. This is normal. Usually there is 1 local IPv6 address and 1 local IPv4 address. On top of that there should be one public IP.

Local IP's start with: - 127.0.0.1 - 192.168.xxx.xxx - fe80:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx etc - 10.0.xxx.xxx

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