why the private network addresses 192.168

Arpit Bhayani

Arpit Bhayani

Sep 07, 2025 • 1 min read


why the private network addresses 192.168..?

because a company used it in some early documentation, people literally copied the same while setting up their networks, and that eventually became the standard.

fascinating.

Arpit Bhayani

Principal Engineer II at Razorpay - building Agent Studio, Ex-staff engg at GCP Memorystore & Dataproc, Creator of DiceDB, ex-Amazon Fast Data, ex-Director of Engg. SRE and Data Engineering at Unacademy. I spark engineering curiosity through my no-fluff engineering videos on YouTube and my courses