192.0.0.171 is the second well-known address used to discover a network’s NAT64 prefix.
Short answer
192.0.0.171 is the second well-known address used to discover a network’s NAT64 prefix.
What it means
RFC 7050 pairs it with 192.0.0.170 as the two addresses of ipv4only.arpa. Devices use the synthesised IPv6 answers to learn how their IPv6-only network reaches IPv4.
It is never a real host.
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Sources
- IANA IPv4 Special-Purpose Address Registry (CC0) · checked 2 Nov 2026
- RFC 8880; RFC 7050